Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regulations of the Committee on Admissions raises two questions which may definitely affect the future of Harvard College. With the first and third of the new rules few will quarrel. The number of men who have partially failed in their first year at Harvard and the obvious discrepancies of standards in secondary schools are sufficient recommendation for them. There will be little weeping over the final passing of the September examinations, which difficult of administration and unsatisfactory results had made a bugbear to examiners and candidates...
...inability of the institutions to expand as fast as the numbers of those desiring to enter them is the most obvious reason for this first abating of the movement that has been the despair of educational leaders for the last decade. Yet this may not be the whole story. If the pressure remained the same, there are still many colleges in the country that could do with a greater abundance of students, and at Harvard each Freshman class outnumbers its predecessor in spite of the increasing rigor of entrance requirements...
...Dramatic Club has had its "Fiesta" butchered to make a holiday for the newspapers. The fact depends from a habit of policy whose ultimate conclusion has long been obvious. When the advantages of sinning in the eyes of official Boston have so often been demonstrated, imitation is not far behind...
...complete fabrication. You are authorized to describe it as a swindle. His Majesty has never put to me such a question as that set forth in the article; never has a conversation with him even touched on that theme. The article lies and deceives its readers with an obvious purpose...
William Shelby, acted by Charles "Buddy" Rogers, imaginative, alert, and determined clerk in a high class music store, falls in love with one who is heir to $20,000,000, Mary Brian, who, of course, does not object to him. She does the obvious, but her position in the social world does not long remain a secret. The ship of good fortune, sailing along with spinnakers set runs onto a hidden reef in the form of a pair of Shelby's fortune-hunting friends. Nothing, however, can possibly down our determined music salesman...