Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notwithstanding the glory of the CRIMSON, the perusal of which is axiomatic and an obvious correlary to membership in the University; of the Lampoon, which may be either taken or left, neither process involving much thought; of the Advocate, prehistoric and unruffled, and of a host of other publications, there is one which unofficially welcomes the incoming Freshman and which is therefore extremely important. Like many other good things, however, the Phillips Brooks Harvard Handbook, inevitably referred to as his Freshman Bible, receives less praise than it merits...
...Saloon League and other non-governmental organizations influence the government in its work of prohibition. It can draw only one conclusion from the constant struggles which go on between those in authority; the blame must lie to a certain extent with a law which causes such difficulties. It is obvious that any such innovation must at the start create preliminary quarrels; but Prohibition has had time to form, if not complete harmony, at least a working agreement between its leaders...
...food of the intellect. But, all unknown though it may be to his many followers, he is often forced to wander far afield in pursuit of that rare morsel which can please so fastidious a taste as he secretly prides himself on. Boston, as the nearest, the most obvious, territory for the despairing epicure, is the usual scene of these veiled expeditions. Last night the Vagabond set out in search of those delicacies indigenous to the joy, the lightness of spring. Weeks of rain and lowering skies had awakened in him thoughts of spring as it should be, thoughts which...
...reader suspects that he had so many tastes that at bottom he had none at all. The two places where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like everything else he treats--but almost, and it cannot be possible...
...other approach to this work must consider the two volumes as a factor themselves in the civilization which the Beards have tried to describe. Here the ground is full of pit-falls, which the Beards themselves have wisely avoided but which their work has made more obvious and less inevitable. There are students of American civilization who see in this country some signs of a growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social...