Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other means, is for experts to determine. The change should at any rate be sufficient to allow the event to be seen by spectators without unduly endangering life and limb. It should be such as to retain the good features of the hammer-throw, and must eliminate the very obvious objections to the present event...
...obvious that it is better to have many books than a few books that there is need of commenting on the dangers of our privilege. There was a time when no man could be great unless he had read nothing more than Pilgrims Progress, the Bible, and Shakespeare's Plays. That time has gone, and the student now a days instead of trying to get a sympathy with a few well-known authors, boasts that he is a pioneer and seeks to achieve an education by reading books by unknown authors. The desire to discover more in formation...
...print in another column an analysis of the athletic records of the graduates of private preparatory schools as compared with the physical achievements of men from public schools. Certainly one obvious conclusion may be drawn from the facts as stated, and this conclusion is further substantiated by statistics of strength tests compiled by Dr. D. A. Sargent of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It was in order to formulate some observations on the physical phase of education and to contrast it with the intellectual that Dr. Sargent has gathered this data, obtained from the examination of about 1,000 Freshmen...
...most prominent clubs of the Federation have already adopted the plan enthusiastically. There has not yet been time to approach a large majority of the clubs as to their feelings, but it is expected in view of the obvious advantages of the scheme, that the remaining clubs will likewise enter into the agreement. The clubs which have already joined are those of Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cotton Belt States, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania...
...Fitch '00 gave a talk before a large meeting of Juniors in the Union last night. He expressed his absolute conviction that the Senior dormitories present the most obvious means for the democratization of Harvard; and democracy, he declared, is a primer requisite if Harvard is to be known from coast to coast as the great national university of the country. The great problem that the dormitories have solved is how to bring together the three types of men in the University, the complacent, provincial, and conscious, private school man, the reticent middle-class man, and the struggling, and sometimes...