Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem fit, but for athletics. In this manner the surplus in the treasury of those of our organizations that are self-supporting could be used to aid the navy and the other organizations in the union, which have to depend upon subscriptions for support. It is obvious that this consolida-would not work to advantage unless all the associations joined and should not be entered into under any other considerations; but a compact of all the athletic interests bound by a sound constitution could not fail to be both economical and beneficial to the college...
...means of building and furnishing a house; and we are now erecting a fitting home for the School, which will be ready for occupation next October. But we are still without provisions for the regular expenses of the School, especially for the salary of a permanent director. It was obvious from the beginning that our School could never aspire to the rank and importance which the French and German schools at Athens have long maintained, and could never undertake continuous and serious work, while its head was continually changing, and there was only temporary provision for even this changing directorship...
...Yale and Columbia. Although no step has been as yet taken in this direction, we are convinced that the students only want to have the matter urged upon them, so we venture to repeat our exhortation of several weeks since. The good that such an association would do is obvious. In the first place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge of some of the famous old playwrights than the average Harvard student now has; and, as we stated before, it would promote the study of elocution, the art of good delivery, of proper gesticulation to a higher...
...hall or in the Yard, with no alternative but to seek the information in our room or at some store. Then we retrace our steps, - possibly to the same building and the same door. The service of a card directory in such emergencies and they are not infrequent - is obvious...
...also be a sort of gauge of our own modesty. For, when a man finds himself ranked with a class, he naturally looks to see who his companions are. If he thinks he is quite as good a scholar as they are he is rather dissatisfied. It is, moreover, obvious that if the majority are dissatisfied somebody must be conceited, and also that the conceit of the college is greater than its modesty by the majority of the dissatisfied over the satisfied men; and vice versa. Modesty is an excellent virtue and easy to assume "If you have...