Word: apts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because all truth is self-evident, and needs only to be stated clearly to be convincing, and the other because short and pithy statements are more apt to be remembered. The final test of the effective speaker, is that he must impress his subject upon the audience and not his own personality...
...regarding manual labor as degrading, the educated negro now considers it distinctly honorable. There is a great difference between working and being worked--the one means civilization, the other servitude. The same is true with reference to the race as to the individual. Any race which is uneducated is apt to yield to the temptation of going from one extreme to another. The Anglo-Saxon race should then not judge the black race too severely, but should compare its progress with that of nations longer civilized. It would then be seen that the rapid advance of the negroes has been...
...themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof...
...their class "lives" in expectation of having more statistics to put in later in the year, as these can always be added by communication with the Secretary. Experience in the past has proved that if the information requested is not sent in early in the winter it is apt to be overlooked and never attended...
...unnaturally, one interested in undergraduate writing is inclined to ask, why should not the average undergraduate story be better than it usually is? Perhaps the writers do not take the matter quite seriously enough; they are too apt to regard their stories simply as a means to the pleasures of social life on the Board, not as steps toward a more truly literary expression. The works show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college...