Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most obvious uses, he said, which higher education affords man, are solace during idle hours and a keener perception of opportunities in business...
...their friends. The remaining smaller portion is distributed to the higher officers of the University, the guests of the Corporation, such as friends of those who are to receive honorary degrees, to benefactors of the University, and to certain public functionaries. In view of these facts it is obvious that it is the small size of the academic theatre that absolutely prevents a proper provision for the friends of candidates for degrees...
...which had been held on the subject of continued cheering would influence the men who see the game with Yale. It is almost impossible, Dr. Nichols said, to play good baseball with the continual noise and din of systematic cheering. The very nature of the game should make this obvious to everyone. If a good play is made however, the spontaneous cheering should be seconded by effective leading, and should express with speed and strength of sound the approval and support of the University. Cheering of a good play which is perceptibly weaker in sound than that of the opponents...
...effects of too much organized cheering are obvious. During recent years both in Cambridge and away the home team has repeatedly been entirely rattled by the well meant and strenuous endeavors of its own partisans. The bad effect is due to two factors: the first, to the feeling of the players that their partisans are over anxious and dubious of the ability of the players to do what is expected of them; and second, to the incessant noise, which has much the same confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time...
...play complete the number. "The Viceroy's Treasure" is bare where it might have been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good step forward...