Word: obviously
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...suggestion certainly deserves serious consideration, for some of its advantages are obvious. Among other things, it would diminish the number of cases of doubtful eligibility and would tend to keep down the age of the players in a way that would be desirable. We still speak of intercollegiate athletics and we think of our teams as representing, primarily, Harvard College (including the Scientific School), rather than Harvard University. The same, however, does not hold true of some other institutions whose circumstances are not similar to ours, and the study of law is no more a reason in itself against playing...
Very seldom does a college paper contain an editorial more frank, timely and sensible than that in the present number of the Advocate. What it says is so true that it ought to be obvious to any thoughtful man; yet the subject with which it deals, the social side of college life, is so liable to misconception that it is a relief to hear it spoken of with such well directed candor...
...proposed as the first set of stockholders, approved themselves to the Board as an obvious choice as men well distributed among the Faculties and specially familiar with the affairs of the Society and all of them having already had the endorsement of the members for places high in the management of the Society...
...method of a close corporation, therefore, would be deprived of a check which has proved wholesome in the past. It remains to be seen how far its positive and obvious advantages outweigh this defect. In the first place, it is to fill its own vacancies, and therefore to insure higher experience and greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution...
...larger part of the report is devoted to showing the desirability of having the Semitic Museum undertake various explorations on its own account. It states that there are several obvious reasons why the Museum should undertake explorations in Egypt. For many centuries Egypt was intimately related to the Semitic world, and it is certain that a well-planned and vigorous expedition would bring to light many of the treasures still lying beneath its soil. Several European governments and learned societies are displaying great activity in Egyptian excavations, and owing to this activity the chances for success in this field...