Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Leighton Parks preached in Appleton Chapel last night on ideas suggested by the parable in Jeremiah of the potter's house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...representative of the class as well as fitted for the offices. It is self-evident that, while the officers should be men competent to fill their positions, they should also be men worthy to represent the class and uphold its honors and dignity. But aside from this obvious fact the class will be called upon to consider two questions, the two changes which Ninety-two introduced...
...unpleasant to have to call the attention of the freshmen to the fact that they have a base ball nine which is playing games in Cambridge. It would seem that they were ignorant of this very obvious truth to judge from the number of men who have been in the habit of watching their nine play. At the game with Technology there were hardly half a dozen. It is discouraging for a team not to feel that some interest is being taken in its movements; to know that they are being watched by supporters instead of by an indifferent crowd...
There is no reason why a plan which has such obvious advantages as the one adopted by Princeton, should not be equally desirable at Harvard, and unless some such plan is carried out, men who desire to go, but cannot afford to pay regular rates, will have to be content with dreaming and longing. There is no need of this if some businesslike student will begin immediately to agitate the question of excursions from Harvard to Chicago. In such excursions there is the obvious advantage of the added interest and pleasure arising from the company of men of kindred views...
Although it is still early to form an opinion of the men almost all of them have very obvious faults...