Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...husband and father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...
There seemed to be little choice of plans; in fact, no prudent course but a seeming retreat to Memphis and a new attempt by central Mississippi...
...Reading.Haydon says in his diary that we learn nothing after twenty, and perhaps this is so far true that the impulse which leads us to wisdom or to unwisdom may be thus early given to the character. In books, as in the world, it seems to me not only prudent but delightful to keep the best company. By that means the brain becomes at last plenam semper et frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from a really...
...this matter must certainly not be retroaction, and the letter to Yale is clearly consistent in its relation to the stand which Harvard has long since taken. Harvard is thoroughly in sympathy with the desire to purify athletics in every possible way, and to take any fair, sensible and prudent step to bring this about. The existing troubles can be remedied in a better mode than by applying this rule to every department of the University. Moreover, Harvard especially objects to agreeing to such a rule that shall apply to students now in college. This objection has been officially stated...
Speaking of English entrance examinations for colleges Prof. Beers of Yale says: "The entrance requirements in English, recommended by the commission of New England colleges, and adopted with more or less success everywhere in New England except at Yale, have been severely criticised, and to Yale it seems prudent to await the result of these experiments, and to postpone any definition of her own policy in the matter until the question confronts her as a practical one, calling for immediate action...