Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation then appointed a committee to confer with the directors. A long discussion was held, from which it was very obvious that the Corporation wished to accommodate more men than at present. The directors were asked to reconsider the question...
...meeting of the Directors of the Harvard Dining Association last Tuesday, the question of closing the gallery to visitors was brought up. It seemed that there were many abuses of the privilege allowed visitors to go to the gallery during meal hours, and a discussion of the subject made obvious the necessity of taking some prompt action. After careful consideration the following votes were passed...
...captains. It was stated in the plainest way, when this announcement was made, that in the opinion of the committee, the best interests of Harvard athletics demanded that the captaincy of the teams be confined to undergraduates. An exception was made in the case of baseball for the perfectly obvious reason that there was no undergraduate for the place. As a matter of principle, and not in any way on personal grounds, the committee has chosen this, its only consistent course. Just at this time it is most important that no step be taken in Harvard athletics which shall make...
...whatever measures are adopted to overthrow the system will probably not be such as to make it absolutely impossible to give seminars and to earn money in this way. No rule can be passed forbidding them, for rules would not affect outside tutors and there would be an obvious injustice to a college man who happened to want to give seminars. The Faculty can take away scholarships from men giving seminars, but positive prohibition is very unlikely. This argument cannot be readily met; we can only say that the man who depends on seminar work for his living is unfortunate...
Admitting the evil, which seems perfectly obvious, how is it to be done away with? We have said that no rule can justly be passed. The remedy cannot be a sudden one, subverting the whole system at one blow. It seems to us that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These...