Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...text of the "Nibelunger Lied," I found that some instructor had put all the texts on the reserved list. It seems to me only fair that, where several copies of a work are in the Library, one at least should be kept in circulation. Instructors are too apt to reserve indiscriminately everything bearing on their subject, and thus to prevent readers who do not happen to take their courses from getting as much benefit from the Library as they have a right to expect. Cannot this be remedied...
...tradition, and think that because a thing has existed for some time it must always continue. Therefore all change is slow, but when a move is once made, the effects are very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life as something different from life after graduation-they think that when they leave college they will start on a new career-but the record once made will affect a man throughout his after life. Pessimism, aestheticism dilettanteism, are all modes of looking at life peculiar...
...short poems appear in this number. "I Fought a Thousand Battles" is a very smooth and delicate piece of verse, teaching in an easy style a deep moral truth. The only piece of society verse is "A Serenade." Its style is graceful, yet it lacks, as society verse is apt to do, sufficient motive for its production...
...view, and the tendency to a liberal and reasonable cast of mind, which generally accompany a university education, always increase the chances of success in any profession. A cultured man is sure of his knowledge, and his decisions are prompt and accurate, while those of an ignorant man are apt to be hesitating and unreliable...
...hissing which disgraced the first winter meeting last Saturday, would be most ungentlemanly. The fact that ladies are to be present should do more towards emphasizing this than anything we can say; but at the same time, under a high pressure of excitement, even gentleman are apt to forget themselves sometimes. The spectators should remember also to abstain from undue applause and encouragement for the contestants until the close of the events. If these little things are remembered, we prophesy an interesting and successful meeting...