Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year there will be no off-hand matches as the National Rifle Association, in which the University has competed in the past, has made certain specifications which would have been difficult to comply with. The schedule of matches all prone, follows...
...have said in this place before, we are told in the Bible that the Holy Spirit will convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgement, by which is meant one's own sin, and the righteousness and judgment of God; but we are too prone to think of someone else's sin, of one's own righteousness, and of judgement by popular vote...
Outsiders are prone to forget that many more students than are listed at the college employment bureau are taking jobs during the summer months and thereby become well acquainted with actual working conditions. This student of the new order who combines practical experience with the somewhat less tangible benefits of a college career is growing more and more numerous as the "college guy" disappears. Furthermore nowhere can there be found a spirit of competition better fitted for stifling self-pity than that aroused by the various student activities in evidence at every large American university. If there ever...
...establishment of the censorship will inevitably lead to a period, long or short, of patched photoplays, which era will last until, either the public or the producers or the reformers have learned the required lesson. The reformers are in earnest: the public is apathetic and prone to take meekly anything that is set before it; the producers are the slaves of whoever can make the most noise. It therefore looks as if the reformers will be allowed ample opportunity to see what they can do toward raising the level of our movies. At present there is certainly room for improvement...
...general characteristic of human nature that we never appreciate our blessings until we have lost them, and the Harvard student is no exception to the rule. Living in the minds of an equipment that has been accumulating for almost there centuries, we are prone to underestimate some of the most interesting parts of the University. How many men, for instance, of their own initiative visit the Arnold Arboretum or the Botanic Garden? The University Museum draws visitors form all over the country; yet some Harvard men have never given even the most cursory examination to the invaluable Comparative Zoology exhibit...