Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Class Committee decided to take advantage of the mechanism of of the Harvard Fund in order to raise the gift of $150,000 which tradition demands from each class upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation, because of its obvious advantages. In the first place, granting an equal response from the members of the class, the return will be much larger in 25 years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan...
...forth against it in the Transcript last night. An undergraduate coach would of course lack the authority of the professional. He would be less of a tactician, more of a captain with the captain's functions as the English understand them. The tendency to ward greater informality is obvious and is a good...
...legions of unexploited destructive agencies was just begun in the most recent war. Since then, there has been time to perfect and to elaborate the tentutive theories and knowledge which at first directed their use. That these will make war a more horrible enterprise than ever before seems obvious, but there are those like Mr. Wells, who will welcome their advent in the hope that their very effectiveness and potency will do more than any possible disarmament conference to outlaw...
Whatever success may attend this proposal, and its purpose certainly is in line with what Yale is trying to do in its way, it is obvious that we are here observing a general tendency to get away from "teaching" in the mass and towards specialized development of the individual. It is along this path, we think, that there will come the solution of the college educational problem that of late years has become so urgent a question. The graduate who looks back on his college days and who feels that the mass education of his day did not land...
...perfect. It was, nevertheless, an improvement and a guide toward further effort. Due partly to petty jealousies and partly to his own intractable character Owen eventually gave up all interest in New Lanark. He attempted to form a similar colony at New Harmony, Indians but it failed completely, one obvious reason being the inharmonious state of the American frontier...