Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural that it be placed in the same department with the janitors and goodies. The flaw in the system is that these watchmen have followed police practice and turned in suspects to their immediate superior; in this case, Mr. Apted. And there has been no consideration given to the obvious fact that an efficient head caretaker will not necessarily be a suitable person to handle student disciplinary problems...
...events of the last few weeks have made obvious the long apparent need for a reorganization that will remove Mr. Apted from all contact with the students since he lacks that sympathetic understanding which is essential in a good disciplinary officer. The College needs a man to whom students would talk as to a brother or a father; his office should be in University Hall, and he should have a seat on the Administrative Board...
...College and the students need an expert to handle this situation; a man who would be respected as such on every occasion. The removal of Mr. Apted from his present position of supervision over student conduct and the appointment of a new disciplinary officer is the obvious way to establish student respect for University law enforcement agencies...
...regard to the University Professorships, I have known of no such intelligent and realistic attempt to offset the evils of over-departmentalization and of high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly...
...lighted; has kept the highway clear for every boy to the professions of theology, law, medicine, and teaching, and a window open to the mind from these times to other times and from this place to other places.' That the service of the Latin School has been invaluable is obvious from the fact that 'the merely modern man never knows what he is about,' and 'a Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world teaches us to discern the amiable traits in it, and the genuine achievements; helping us, amid so many distracting problems, to preserve a certain...