Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money?but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world is diseased by greed for sensation, for life, for security...
...often and how far the teams shall or shall not go. The attitude is one of weighing the true value, or rather lack of it, in such distant contests. If more athletic committees could be started along this same path of judging those faraway sport encounters which require an obvious loss of time, of money, and of energy, at their just worth, the problem not only of magnified freshman sports, but also that of over-emphasis on athletics generally, would be a long way, toward being solved...
When it is also realized that there are now over fourteen million foreign born in the United States, the necessity of immediate and drastic restriction in order to preserve the national homogeueity will be obvious. Whatever may be its benevolent humanitarian desire, this country can no longer afford to endanger its own future as a united nation by a blindly generous welcome of all those who present themselves at its gates. The more instinct of self-preservation alone must force a reluctant closing of the doors...
...advance varies greatly, depending chiefly on the individual's ability and consecration to his work, on the type of institution in which he lands his job, and on the state of supply and demand in his particular subject of study. Of these points the first and third are obvious. Of the second much might be said. Briefly, appointments to assistant-professorships, associate-professorships, and professorships are slower to come in the larger universities of highest standing than in the smaller universities and colleges. Among the larger I have in mind such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Columbia, and some...
...foregoing statements and figures are only roughly indicative of the practical rewards. It is obvious, however, that wealth is not the lot of college teachers--unless they happily have independent income. It should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these...