Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ideals are very apt to disappear in the struggle for a living. Nevertheless college men, who have the opportunity to do some of that detached, impersonal thinking which often provides such good social medicine, are through their situation well fitted to see and work for the good of the whole community. To these the Prospect Union offers a liberal field. It is continuing in its purpose "to bring into mutual beneficent contact all classes and groups in the community." It is a sincere attempt to break down the barriers of misunderstanding between classes...
...working day of six to eight hours of prescribed work during his last four years at school. He has not time to develop properly any independent intellectual interests worth cultivating; he has little leisure for self-improvement and self-development, and even this leisure he is apt to find has been planned...
...hands of an autocratic government, universal military training may perhaps justly be regarded as dangerous and apt to lead to "militarism." In the case of a democracy like ours, the "danger is non-existent. P. R. CHANDLER...
...University is certain to feel the need to counsel with some one whom experience makes competent to give advice. It is not likely that his Faculty adviser will be available for more than hasty conferences on the mysteries of the course pamphlet. In addition, the Freshman is apt to have a feeling of awe toward professors in general which militates against the necessary frankness of his part...
...gate to the College Yard in memory of the men of your class who fell in the war. Bit by bit the Yard is being beautified but much remains to be done, and I can think of no more fitting nor permanent memorial, of a modest but apt sort than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead in the great war, but I should be unhappy to think that the prospect...