Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chosen is felt to be the only one available, the plans have been made and approved, and perhaps the building will after all not prove an eyesore. Granted after all not prove an eyesore. Granted that the promise of a site was a rash one, granted that there are obvious drawbacks to the selection is this, the eleventh hour, quite the time for opposition? If there is a general feeling among Harvard men against the Brooks House site, let us hope that in the future it will serve as a reminder that constant interest in the geographical extension...
Thus it is obvious that M. Doumic is not a mere genius, but a man who has won his way, who has sturdy qualities reinforcing exceptional ability...
...qualification for the degree; now it is the passing of examinations on a definite number of courses or half-courses. Provided that the curriculum is so arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses of the first half-year, the Mid-year Commencement would be of obvious advantage to many whose work would conveniently be completed during the first half-year. Such would be men from other colleges who wished to spend more than one year but less than two at Harvard; Seniors who had completed, say, sixteen courses during their first three years...
...express, nor have I expressed, any opinion as to the desirability of establishing an American Henley or a general inter-collegiate regatta. There are obvious difficulties in the way and not the least of these is the lack of any general desire amongst American University men for the establishment of such a regatta...
...While it is obvious that Yale men have no right, moral or legal, to criticise Harvard's methods of conducting her athletics and her system of training, the kindly and historic interest which Yale men take in Harvard's sportsmanship ought not to be resented...