Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefits accruing from such an arrangement would be obvious, but a statement of a few may not be out of place. The interest in college boating would be increased enormously. A greater knowledge of the men and customs of the universities of England would be afforded us and the reverse would be true of Oxford and Cambridge. In meeting against a common enemy, Yale and Harvard would be drawn more closely together, and there would be less hostility in all our other athletic contests...
...this is added the obvious advantage, which members alone have of securing discounts on cash purchases at leading retail stores in Boston. The experience of the past five years makes it safe to say that the member is very exceptional who cannot save several times his membership fee in transactions with these affiliated retail dealers...
...difficulty of the choice, the responsibility increases and it becomes more necessary to weigh the pros and cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind the obvious advantage of having a larger range of subjects included in the instruction given, there lies that deeper advantage of making men more careful and deliberate in the choice of their courses. This force is brought to bear most cogently on the man who is taking what is known as a "general...
...this purpose, the Society will undertake to procure at its own risk the number of books which any instructor thinks needed for his courses for the ensuing academic year, provided that the instructor will give the Society exclusive information as to the books he will use. A monopoly is obviously necessary to warrant the Society in assuming an engagement of this kind. The certainty of an adequate supply, which a monopoly brings, is at once an obvious convenience to instructors, and in the Society's hands, a means of effecting material savings for all students. The Society will sell...
...evils of introducing the professional element into amateur athletics are so great - they are so obvious to those who have dipped into matters of the kind without losing their faculty of criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial...