Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...becoming the fashion to cite the Oxford Union as an ideal "Social Centre", and also as an ideal centre of discussion on current affairs. The obvious connection between these two functions. of the Oxford Union does not seem to have struck your contributors and correspondents. I was for two years an active member of the Oxford Union, and in my last term served as a member of one of its committees; I therefore feel qualified to talk about its position in the university. The only reason that it is a social centre is that it is the University Debating Society...
...members. Debating, of the parliamentary as opposed to the special pleading type, seems to me the only solution. Conversely, I do not believe that any "Forum" can take a permanent place in the life of the College so long as it remains homeless and unattached. The Union is the obvious and the necessary place for general discussion of affairs of interest. FREDERIC SCHENCK...
...Eben Jordan that the agreement was effected, whereby Harvard students might take advantage of the educational opportunities so close at hand. The organization is open to all members of the University, undergraduates, graduates, and Faculty upon payment of fifty cents annually. The advantages of the arrangement are obvious, and students who are not yet members should join the association at once. Blue-books will be placed at Leavitt & Peirce's, the Rendezvous, and the Union before next Wednesday...
...question of what is right and what is wrong in such cases may not always be perfectly obvious; and it may not always be perfectly easy to do one's duty; but difficulties far more serious arise in the manager's relations with other people. Take such matters as injurious trades, unhealthy tenements, unfair competition with rivals, oppressive treatment of employees, dishonest products, disregard of the public safety or comfort, dealing with public authorities which, even if not corrupt, are unconscionable. It is in questions of this kind that the evils of absentee-ownership are felt today. The investor does...
...result of the maintenance of this extremely high and differential standard for Freshmen is obvious. Thinking four A's, or even the grades requisite for a position in the second group, beyond his reach, the Freshman contents himself with C's. Despairing of attaining distinction, he is satisfied with mediocrity. The present system may, without exaggeration, be characterized as unfair--Unfair because it requires the Freshman who is trying for distinction to reach higher standards than the Senior...