Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argue thus, one must hold that every course in college should be planned, organized, and conducted for the "A" man, that the student who ranks in other than the top section of the college should be disregarded in the ordering and arranging of his education. The fallacy here is obvious. It is equally so, however, in the larger question of whether the student should express his opinion at all, regardless of his academic qualifications to an opinion. For education is something apart from mere erudition, or age, or title. It is a process. And if anyone is qualified to appraise...
...first rented an apartment and then stayed with a private family. Charming as the latter may be, it can hardly be considered suitable that distinguished scholars should not be provided with proper living quarters of their own. This need President Eliot's house would fill to the utmost for obvious reasons...
...those free from the complacence of the plagiarists it is obvious that Mr. Auslander, critic and verse writer, has done me great honor...
...however, than the light it sheds upon our government's attitude. If one treaty is thus considered another "scrap of paper", the whole fabric of our peaceful ideals will be shown to be nothing more than that. Yet we have seen fit to preach peace abroad. The accusation is obvious, and most of the facts substantiate it outwardly. America has done little enough to repair the damage of the war. It was previously hoped that at least we meant well, if we acted ineffectively. The debt settlements are evidently unsatisfactory to some nations, but the senators who justified them argued...
...obvious that opinion on international affairs and economic theory is worthless unless it is based on a thorough grasp of the facts gleaned from exhaustive research, and it is particularly the curse of undergraduate thought that its conclusions are usually emotional reactions arising from hasty and superficial reading or discussion. It is nonsense to raise the bugaboo of radicalism in relation to such resolutions as those passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements...