Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious that the advisor must be the keystone of the whole structure. If he is timid and diffident, his advisers are certainly more so; if after two or three years of college he still lacks the confidence to invade a Freshman's rooms and make himself at home, he cannot expect such assurance on the part of the advisee. And if he has no great faith in his own advice, he may be sure that no one else has. But in any case, whether he gives good advice or bad upon his energy, his willingness to get up and grapple...
...same time, the present wave of disbelief and somewhat defiant agnosticism may possibly be due to something besides mental growing pains. To say that present day conditions are a bit out of the ordinary and therefore explanatory of much, is undoubtedly a sickening truism; but like most painfully obvious remarks it is also true, and is something which short sighted critics who are of the elder generation could remember to advantage when flaying their juniors for non-conformity. The church does well which recognizes this abnormality and which goes to those most concerned for suggestions on how best to handle...
...amid the birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct...
That this state of affairs may have a devitalizing effect on the liberal arts by driving sensitive men into science and economics courses which have not yet become fashionable for women, is obvious. Many minds for which literature and allied subjects have at first only a slight appeal, are later, drawn thereto, after preliminary examination, with compelling force and all these potential adherents are repelled at the outset, the loss to the beaux arts is quite apparent...
...insignificance, often painfully so. The graduate, apparently, does not lose this conception, when in all reality, he has every right to regard himself more seriously. The undergraduate feels that he does not count in the large world; and probably he doesn't. Whatever the graduate feels, it is obvious that whether he wants to or not he does count. His is the larger sphere of action and influence; and while he may feel that he is thus being unjustly discriminated against with no responsibility lifted from the shoulders of the undergraduate and laid heavily on his own, he is forced...