Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that phase of literary endeavor. One of the stories was interesting only because it was about Russia; the other a clumsy attempt at whimsicality mingled with a certain amount of unredeemed lubricity. The poems suffer in comparison with the work of Hillyer and Damon. The one essay contained much obvious truth, but seemed over weighted by verbosity, pedantry, and didacticism. The editorial page which failed to state the ambitions, purposes, and ideals of the magazine, presented a farrago of misplaced propaganda and flippancy. The theatrical page brought out some interesting points in atrocious English. The reprint from a New York...
...remedy is very obvious. The College should every year reserve at least one room in each entry of every dormitory for occupation by a foreign...
...course admit the great, the pressing, need of a new gymnasium building to take the place of Hemenway, long antiquated and outgrown. Even more obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
Many men cannot agree with the principle of the League of Nations. The reasons are obvious. In the first place it is an experiment, previously broached, perhaps, but actually untried. It would further seem to surrender a part of the cherished sovereignty of nations. Many powerful arguments are launched against it. Yet the men who are most violent in its criticism are helpless when they are asked to provide a substitute...
Occasional announcements emanating from Harvard make it clear that the emphasizing of the triangular aspect of intercollegiate athletics is something more than a vague tendency; it is, indeed, a fact which is becoming ever more clearly-established. One cannot escape obvious conclusions, of which the chief, I think, is that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--traditional leaders in intercollegiate sport--intend to work out among themselves a code of athletics which will satisfy the scrupulous investigation of any scrupulously inclined person who feels impelled at any future time to undertake the task. --New York Evening Post...