Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Saturday afternoon the 'varsity crew squad went skating on the upper Charles, near Dedham. This form of exercise was a substitute for the accustomed long walk which the squad takes twice a week. There seems to be in the policy of the 'varsity crew coaches an obvious attempt to make the winter training as diverting and agreeable as possible. The fifteen miles covered on the ice afforded as much exercise as the usual indoor training...
...there have been complaints in regard to the existing methods of distributing scholarships by the authorities of the college. This distribution of scholarships is a matter of extreme difficulty, and any hammer-and-tongs assault on the present method would be unjustified; yet there are certain considerations, perhaps more obvious to the undergraduate than to the Faculty, which we wish to press on their attention...
...these days when even those whose interest in the success of the eleven is most intense can not for obvious reasons know anything of the real chances of success or failure, it is of vital importance that every man strive to keep his spirits up and to show in every way possible his loyalty. Many circumstances have conspired this season to weaken the confidence of the College in the team's ability to win. The daily papers have contained startling accounts of Yale's strength, while by reason of the strict secrecy to which all the Harvard players have been...
...peculiarly fitted for the duties of their positions, as, for instance, the offices of poet and orator; secondly, those that are filled by men whose services to the class and to the University make them worthy of the highest honors which the class can give. Now it is obvious that if this is the basis upon which officers are to be elected, a man's being a "society man" or a "non-society man" should not enter into consideration. Each candidate should stand before the class strictly on his merits; whether his merits have won social recognition before...
...time when President Eliot came into office other institutions than Harvard were beginning to provide means for the higher learning. It is obvious that, if Harvard had failed to keep abreast with this movement her prestige as the leading seat of learning in the land would have been gone. The npbuilding of the Graduate School has been for this reason, the most important development of the University in which President Eliot has taken a leading part...