Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful venture into the pasture usually conceded to the Lampoon. And it is genuine praise to say that this month's Atlantic Monthly matches in wit the famous Fake Crimson, and the Boston Transcript editions of Lampy. As befits the "literary undergraduate publication" the burlesque is not too obvious, in fact June Dandelions, the opening story, might almost have appeared between the authentic buff covers of the Back Bay Monthly. There is the same haunting sense of fatality and say-it-with-flowers motif, the same flattering intimation that the reader can sense the emotional power of the female character...
Bostonians themselves acknowledge, with what pride they can assume, that they are peculiar. In no way is their eccentricity more obvious than at the play. For on such occasions, there is apparent a phenomenon as incomprehensible to the stranger as it seems to be natural to the native. When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake...
...present College year and will be given an opportunity to choose their advisees. The new method is commendable in that it provides for a broader source of information in choosing men to carry on the work next term; the advantage of allowing the Seniors to choose their advisees is obvious for much more can be accomplished by one who knows the Freshman assigned to him than by a stranger...
This raises a nice question in political philosophy as regards our democracy. Is the President of the United States rightly a master or a servant of the people? To say that he is a master is an obvious denial of the very purpose of a representative government. On the other hand, to require the President to submerge his abilities as a mere servant to those who choose him is absurd. In-so-far as all his power is derived from the people must he subordinate his personal biases to public opinion, and in-so-far as popular confidence...
...instructive, will be based on the idea that all the students will be "working their way." As for business training, a college course, followed by two years in a graduate business school, at present gives the same results in no longer time. On the other hand, there are no obvious drawbacks to the scheme, and it is more than likely that a few years of experimentation will develop it into a useful variety of institution. The progress of the school will certainly be watched with the closest attention by all who are interested in educational evolution...