Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves to be absorbed into the University by the natural process of becoming themselves residential quads, and so retaining their historical identify at the same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that all the evils of the club system would be only magnified by such a plan if the clubs pursued their present method of election. Wilson's solution, implicit though never spoken, was to make intellectual and not social raport the basis of selection...
That it is sensationalism seems to anyone at all familiar with the facts too obvious to need proof. The picture Mr. Pringle draws of the Yale man is only slightly less amusing to a Harvard undergraduate than the similar caricatures of himself that he may have been surprised to find are taken seriously by people who ought to know better. And yet it is a strange fact that while no one would believe such tales about clerks or office boys, for the collegian there are scarcely any bounds of credibility...
...about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility of a close analysis of faculty behaviour...
These considerations should make it obvious enough that abnormal psychology can benefit by contact with other university sciences. Whether or not the converse is true, whether abnormal psychology has a contribution to make to Harvard, that remains to be seen. It is our prejudice of course that psychopathology makes for value...
...obvious of course that abnormal psychology is a subject that is loaded with dynamite: and pregnant with possibilities for the disintegration of character. It exposes the combustibles at the springs of life. When a man witnesses the transformation of a human being from a state of poised serenity to one of maniacal possession: and stands face to face with the inexpressible fury of concentrated spiritual rage, it is inexpressibly brought home to him that the potentialities for destructive power within the human mind are immeasurable and as appalling as a cosmic cataclysm. But when one feels all these things...