Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrust into an artificial environment, minutely supervised by a committee, and submitted to a special brand of instruction. Revision of college courses to provide opportunity for work at varied levels would be a much saner procedure. That the Northwestern prodigies will be successful in their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial joy at a competent student is in the nature of a partial compensation; possibly the social Benents...
...assumption is unsupported, and utterly unjustified. The number of exhibitors is small, but the fault lies not with the directors but with the conditions of life here. It is obvious that College life does not provide the time or the inspiration for creative work. It is significant that most of the work shown was done in the summer; that all the major exhibitors are leaving next year to study art elsewhere; that only one up perclassman was shown, other Juniors and Seniors of artistic leanings having, long since departed. If the Editors of the CRIMSON feel that insufficient effort...
...dodging a deficit. The museum has 35 exhibition halls, 500 employes. Frederick Trubee Davison, the American's new president, and George Herbert Sherwood, its harried director, have found that their available $1,600,000 is $123,000 too little. To save $50,000 they did the obvious-discharged help. (Wages had been cut long ago.) Their new trick saved the balance. They closed exhibition halls in rotation, ten at a time, except Saturdays and Sundays when only four will be shut. The visitor to Manhattan who wants to survey everything in the American Museum must remain in the city...
...this discussion is but a prelude of obvious examples to the more subtle English "youthy" movement. This consists of a lot of by-election talk about new men to take the place of the old (the average man in Mr. MacDonald's Government is sixty-three years of age). What has happened to youth? Where are the Gladstones of a hundred years ago? What is the matter with the Oxford Union? some say all young men are under Flanders' Field; but in reality, according to Mr. Lewis, they have merely realised that politics is not a profitable business. This...
Much of the enthusiasm for McKee arose last year when he replaced Walker after the latter's resignation. Like a slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many that these moves were dictated by the city's banker-creditors, McKee was resoundingly lauded from press and pulpit. Taking advantage of his sudden popularity he issued scores of orders, closing burlesque shows here, and dictating now traffic rules there. With the coming of the fall elections McKee was even...