Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...advantages of the Senior dormitory scheme are obvious and of enough importance to determine the great majority of Juniors who believe in a unified class, especially in the final year of undergraduate life, to make application at once for these rooms...
...host of arguments for the broadening and strengthening of secondary athletics often consider merely the spring and fall sports. The advantages of more general participation during these seasons are so obvious that the discussion is now aimed almost entirely toward discovering the best means of promoting these scrub contests. The winter sports, however, seem to have been somewhat neglected...
...speculators. An incorrect list printed without giving those blacklisted sufficient time to offer and, if possible, to prove a defence would lead to many injustices. The odium of speculation would be attached to unfortunates whose names had been forged or whose friends had lost their tickets. It is obvious, also, that the presence on the list of the names of well-known graduates, whose reputation would convince everyone of their innocence, would detract much from the stigma of being blacklisted...
...serious student, will hardly convince those whose aversion to any form of intellectual contest has made debating unfashionable. These, who are the very ones to be persuaded, may possibly be won by the formation of new debating societies, or by some ingeniously contrived rewards of a speedy and obvious sort, but scarcely by the suggestion that they might in the uncertain future become efficient leaders of public opinion...
...besiege a successful candidate for office. They insist that they are merely claiming their rights, and cannot understand the attitude of men with equally strong claims who are content to sit by and receive what they deserve. We do not intend to urge men who have been treated with obvious unfairness to refrain mistakes. But if every malcontent would weight his claims thoughtfully before presenting them, and act upon the promptings of his sense of justice, he would save the time of the persecuted officer, as well as his own self-respect...