Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...office, must be left to decide; but cutting leads to one practice which needs to be discouraged. We refer to that of attending lectures by proxy, of being marked present when in reality absent. The point of honor involved in this intentional deception is sufficiently obvious; but in the College today it seems to escape the attention of many who pass in the eyes of themselves and of their fellows for strictly honorable men. More than this, there are men whose characters command respect, who are yet not ready to admit that they do anything dishonorable by occasionally deceiving...
...this possibility of earning a degree in only three years, but the desirability of it must be determined separately for each individual case. The consideration of all such cases is now undertaken with very great care by a standing committee of the Faculty. Only those men who can with obvious advantage shorten their college course, are allowed the privilege, which is securely guarded from abuse. Owing to these necessary precautions, the number of cases of actual graduation in three years has been kept low, but the opportunity for it is offered as freely as is at present justifiable. The three...
...conceal his sneer at the "budding humility" and "seemly modesty" which the Harvard man is so unexpectedly developing. Evidently anything of the sort is foreign to his own nature, or he would not have let his momentary anger find such hasty expression. There is something very childish in his obvious inability to appreciate the feeling which led to Captain Brewer's manly letter...
...reason for sending coaches to Andover earlier in the season than to Exeter is obvious. Andover's first ball game will be played March 31; Exeter's first game will not be played until April...
...fact that has been impressed upon the captains and coaches of our athletic teams and which must be more or less obvious to Harvard men at large, that an undue proportion of the athletes who graduate from the preparatory schools enter Yale. Of course it may be said with some degree of truth that Yale's victories have been the cause of this preference on the part of young athletes, but certainly the converse argument applies with equal force...