Word: manifest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge as it is exemplified in England and Germany. Not that any servile copy of our pattern is to be desired, but we have great lessons to learn from our elder and more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought in any lasting form while at Harvard? I doubt if traces of a student...
...grace from the college whose nine has suffered defeat at the hands of Dartmouth in four out of the six contests in which the two have been engaged. It is doubtless true that Dartmouth will make no violent opposition to the proposition, choosing rather to submit quietly to a manifest injustice than to obtain the unenviable reputation of obstinacy and grumbling. It is certainly true that should the division be attempted she will decline to enter the smaller league, and content herself with playing such individual games as may be arranged, in which success is by no means doubtful, owing...
There are many objections to the system of reserved books in the library, as at present managed, which in the eyes of some go far to counterbalance the manifest advantages of the scheme. Whenever there exist no duplicates of any important book in the library, the many who do not happen to be in the course which claims the privilege of exclusive use of the book are forced to either go without or suffer the inconvenience of long waiting for the restoration of the book to its ordinary place. Some books, it is true, that are on the reserved list...
...elections for three years back at least. Still, as fairness and not time is the primary consideration, the matter is worthy of much thought on the part of members of the class. It might be well to consider individual cases and suspend the rule by a majority vote, where manifest unfairness would follow a strict observance of the rule...
...inconsiderate as to interfere with their innocent pleasures? '85 and '86 I hope will always live on friendly terms. And yet '86 should remember that a certain amount of the old class feeling still lingers in the breasts of sophomores, although sternly repressed and never suffered to manifest itself except in extreme cases. Do not be too fresh, O freshmen...