Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...mind, when he comes here, is in a somewhat critical condition. Reared among the comforts and refinements, to be sure, of home, but also among its restrictions, he has been looking for a year or more to the freedom of college life. After his entrance, therefore, he is apt to think himself suddenly become a man, and to do the most absurd things simply because he considers them manly. Naturally, at the same time, his own opinion of himself becomes exalted. He is a Harvard student and a great man. He feels this keenly, and the consciousness is apt...
...world, make the grand tour, etc.; but visiting picture-galleries and palaces, and dreaming under the combined influence of a cigar and the Lake of Como, are very poor preparations for mathematics and logic, relieved only by the milder diversions of a Cambridge winter; and the average student is apt to return with a much clearer conception of the works of Offenbach than of those of Michael Angelo, and of Monaco than of the Matterhorn...
...reporting private matters of the college in a daily paper is also the one who attempted to palm off upon the Magenta, as his own production, a poem which appeared first in Punch and afterwards in certain papers in this country. Reference to this Freshman, who is so apt at "dashing off other people's productions," will be found in the second number of the Magenta. We are perhaps too merciful in withholding his name...
...Pierian Sodality and Glee Club have squabbled. This is not what one is apt to look for from two institutions whose sole object is harmony...
Such an exhibition of muffing is rarely seen on any field as the Harvards showed in the last few innings of this game. Every one took a hand in it, and all played as if they were utterly demoralized, showing little judgment and less nerve, which is very apt to be the case when a nine imagine they have an easy victory...