Word: apts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...First, it, (that is, singing), is a knowledge easily taught and quickly learned, where there is a good master and an apt scholler...
...undergraduate is too often apt to regard his professors as machines to shovel knowledge into his head. He forgets the human element. But if he glances back over the courses he has taken, he will realize that the ones he liked best were given by men he admired. The characteristics of the instructor impress themselves on a student's mind. From one he gets a touch of humor; from another a new and broadening outlook on the questions...
...last week the non-participating members of the Class were far too numerous. Following in the footsteps of the Senior election, the Junior and Sophomore classes, especially the former, have paid small attention to the nomination of candidates by petition. From these criteria, the three elections today are apt to be very unsatisfactory to both the nominees and to the classes as a whole unless the eligible voters throw off their lethargic attitude...
...have here in the Fogg Museum one of the best small art collections in the country; the glass flowers in the University Museum are absolutely unique, and still we are apt to ignore such opportunities and go only to the buildings where classes make it necessary for us to appear. This type of laziness is inexcusable, yet is is a prevalent failing. To leave Harvard without getting the maximum from it is an intellectual crime. Unfortunately we are better acquainted with the interiors of the Washington street movies than of our own university. There is one week left before Class...
Those of us who remain in college are still apt to think too much of our personal comforts and pleasures. The theatre-going habit and other expensive forms of amusement have not been over-come as they should have. It is time that we found better and cheaper means of recreation. A great cause is now calling upon us and the response must be unanimous and to the limit. Those who do without unnecessary pleasures will do part of their share. How much greater will be the achievement of those who make a real personal sacrifice...