Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equally important aspect of the new scheme is its bearing on the work and status of the tutor. It is obvious that the emphasis laid on the general final examinations enhances the value of the tutorial work. This, coupled with the practice, which is gradually being introduced, of allowing a student to substitute work with his tutor for course requirements, inevitably increases the responsibility and the influence of the tutor, since the importance of the tutorial work will increase in inverse ratio to that of the course. The question then arises whether the tutorial system in its present form...
...temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only one nation in the world could have produced a mind imbued with a clarity so finely poised between the obvious and the obscure. It is to be hoped that Professor Gilson will soon again repeat his American adventure...
...mind that Wassermann is a sort of first child of the Twentieth Century, strong and vigourous and mercilessly sure in his judgment of the world into which he was born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion," for in the three...
...instance: there is an obviously uncomplimentary picture of a dean ordering dropped eggs. There is a blatant reference, in the style of Vachel Lindsay, to Mumbo Greenough. It is badly states that a professor of history has big feet,--this observation is not even decently veiled by utilizing the convenient literary device of spelling the name M-RR-M-N. Then there is the evil suggestion that as "mid-years are approaching it will be far from undiplomatic for the subtle student to commence accosting his section men with the title professor." What could be more offensive that this, suggesting...
...Obvious methods present themselves, but none are entirely adequate although any can be made to serve. One is to distribute reviews evenly among the prominent volumes of the prominent publishing houses. This assures a wide range of books much as a lottery involves a wide range of numbers. It is a method to which business harmony demands a partial but not a rigid conformity. Again, it is possible to select the volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device...