Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second, and more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport...
Federal experiments take place gingerly on Public Health Service's Narcotics Farm, opened last year at Lexington, Ky. Only carefully selected patients, upon whom no harm is apt to fall, received morphine substitutes. The regular procedure is to give such an addict the new drug while he is deprived of morphine. If he throws no deprivation fits, the new drug is considered an effective narcotic. After several days of this, the patient is deprived of all drugs. If he throws a fit, this proves that the substitute is also habit-forming...
...Though apt to deprecate the ride...
Concentrators in languages find certain inevitable faults which by now appear to be almost stock in trade. Due to its innate stability and uniformity a language is very apt to suffer from comparison with such dynamic subjects as history, government, or economics. The German department at Harvard has in the past been repeatedly indicted for wallowing in a morass of pedantry, and it is to be hoped that current reforms will do much to relieve this condition...
...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...