Word: apts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kept his shots consistently low, hard and accurate. In ten minutes of individual practice he succeeded in putting nearly every other shot past the goal tender. Although the entire squad appeared to work more smoothly than last week, the men were still a little over-anxious and apt to shoot too soon...
...list of Freshmen who won honors in their entrance examinations, published in today's issue, is apt to be overlooked because of the preponderance of football material. Nevertheless it presents just as worthy a record of achievement as that of our football heroes. If the pen is not now mightier than the pigskin, its day will come. Those Freshmen who have temporarily but strenuously achieved, are deserving of all honor...
...country, and perhaps, if his maternal love goes so far, the first in the world. All men go to the football games and cheer that team which they have come to feel represents in some measure the spirit of the University. In the winning touchdown they are apt to believe they see the reason why Harvard is supreme...
...standard of education and culture in a country is apt to be judged by the character of literature produced by the country's authors during a certain period. Mr. Ellsworth bewails the decreasing number of good authors which this country has produced in the last two decades, and declares that the educational machinery of our colleges is at fault. It must be remembered that the population of the country has advanced with gigantic strides, and each decade has found American colleges struggling to expand their scolastic facilities in order to care for the mass of young men eager to learn...
...college graduate, although his general training might be good, was often not immediately serviceable in business. His mind might be active, his vision broad, and his ideals high, but frequently he did not function properly in the initial stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered...