Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...professions the necessity of a university education is obvious, and accordingly the law and medical schools of the country offer a practical training to fit the student for his future work. In like manner our engineers and architects receive direct technical and practical knowledge from college courses which apply directly to the profession which the student is later to follow. But what does Harvard offer of a directly practical nature to the man who will spend the greater part of his life in purely mercantile business...
...possession a Union book which he thoughtlessly removed from the Library, it is his obvious duty to return it at once; and if any man has in his possession a book which he intentionally carried away, the duty of insuring its return rests not only upon him but upon any one else who discovers its whereabouts...
...topic, the Bishop of London is a speaker who merits a warm reception. He is a man of stranding personality, young for his position, an athlete, an ardent student and a tireless worker. He is one of those "Inevitable men, who by sheer force of character, by their obvious fitness to do great things, find themselves where great things are to be done...
...Beta Kappa by Hon. James Bryce. In a discussion of the eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying...
...proposed Three Years' Course in the University, a vote was taken by which the proposition was defeated in a good majority vote. The report of the committee, which was appointed last year to investigate the question, was considered and discussed in the business session on Friday. As is obvious by this vote the most influential of the Harvard graduates are not in favor of a regular three year's course, and this decision of the meeting is very representative of the opinion of all graduates...