Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your finger on the crux of the matter when you state that the University contribution "is very meager if non-existent." You state "it is obvious that the entire annual income of the Buckley fund and the Cambridge Aid was not used." I agree if Cambridge Aid (allocated by the Administration from general funds for Cambridge students) amounts to any substantial sum. But if the source for the latter is the Buckley fund, the only ethical way out would be to abolish the term Cambridge Aid and identify all the money distributed with the Buckley fund or at least that...
...nonexistent. From 1929 to 1932 as few as seven students, including both upperclassmen and graduate students, received aids and as many as nineteen. The average amount received by these students was two hundred dollars regardless of group rating and evidence of high scholarship. From these facts it is obvious that the entire annual income of the Buckley fund and the Cambridge aid was not used...
...found that the best way to handle President Wilson was to tell him that President Poincare had just received a petition of loyalty and devotion to France from 150,000 French Saarlanders. There never were any such people. There never was any such petition. Its absurdity should have been obvious to Historian Wilson, but he yielded to the tall story of Journalist Clemenceau...
Next day Australian editors pointed out that Melbourne moppets do not romp in the middle of the night; that at 1 a. m., Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...
...obvious cause of these conditions has been lack of money; another is nor far to seek. Tutoring has too rarely been regarded, either by the University or by the tutors, as a career. Often it has been not been not even the doorway to a career. The pay has been inadequate, the work exacting and often exhausting, and the tutor knew that, no matter how well he might perform his task, his promotion to an assistant professorship would depend upon qualifications among which tutoring ability ought to be one of the most important, but that it would rarely be given...