Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...obvious that the first four lines of the first stanza of "Fair Harvard,"--written especially for Commencement--are not appropriate for many of the occasions on which we sing them. This is particularly noticeable after football games, when our "jubilees" have been of late few; nor do we surrender the College to future generations at the end of a pop concert in the Union...
...obvious reasons we have been general in the statements we have made, but the past College year has not lacked concrete examples of "official ineffectives." If there were a scarcity of capable men willing to assume the management of our organizations--scientific, literary and political--inefficient officers would be more excusable. But we have the men. It is merely a question of readjusting our ideas to recognize the comparative values of personality and ability...
...editorial on "The Young Instructor" is the one jarring note in the number. Conched in extravagant language and containing many obvious exaggerations, it is intended, ostensibly, as a protest against some aspects of the system of employing a large number of young instructors and assistants to correct themes and to supplement the instruction given by lectures in large courses. The protest is directed especially against the employment for such work of men just graduated from college, who, it is agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely...
Though in general, therefore, I am against professional coaching; yet I should not like to see Harvard abandon her professional coaches unless the other colleges are willing to do so also. Harvard would then be at such an obvious disadvantage that candidates for the teams would from the beginning see the possibility, even probability of defeat, which is more demoralizing to enthusiastic sport than any ethical disadvantage of a professional coach. Let each college abandon professional coaches and all will meet on perfectly fair grounds. Until then I sincerely hope Harvard will stick to the policy she has now adopted...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...