Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult to understand just what the Faculty desire to effect by the change in the regulations announced to day. The obvious purpose would seem to be that the students should be brought back promptly after the recesses; but if this is the only thing which will be accomplished the regulation will certainly arouse much dissatisfaction. The vacations are all very short, the one at Christmas being so short that it hardly means a vacation to those whose homes are in the South and West, But at present it is no very difficult matter for a student so to arrange...
...last sixteen years, and especially his intercourse with students through the medium of daily themes. He considers that "the leading trait of the Harvard undergraduate is a fine sense of veracity." Of the secondary characteristics he mentions "a manly frankness," and, resulting from this, "the less welcome but more obvious traits" of self consciousness and self distrust. Summing up the characteristics of the undergraduate. Mr. Wendall says: "Sincere at heart then we find him; frank, and plagued with a self-consciousness that leads to a somewhat serious lack of assertion, which leads in turn to an evanscent lack of earnestness...
...advantages to be derived from such an institution are obvious. It would strengthen then the universities and colleges now existing, by sending back strong men into their Faculties. It would be a perpetual incentive to the best men in the country to exert themselves to their utmost, in view of a possible appointment to a professorship at Washington. But great as the benefits would be to the cause of learning, the greatest benefit of all would be felt by the country at large, for the atmosphere of a great university could not fail to have a beneficial effect...
...necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their alma mater and to present her with a reading-room such as she deserves, such as the ever-increasing number of her students demands, such as the present poor accommodations render an obvious necessity. We concur with President Eliot in his statement that such a call for a sufficient sum of money to do away with the present utterly inadequate reading-room will be favorably received, and urge the President, the Fellows, and all others interested, to take the matter in hand immediately...
...unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates it as blindly liberal shows immediately his in competency as a judge...