Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Point. In this undertaking even the elements combined against us; for on one occasion the eclipse of the moon had such an effect on the tide as to leave the harbor a mass of mud at the time appointed for sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked in all our plans of sport, the party at length resorted to the Harvard amusement of billiards and pool, and, returning through the town to their hotel, regaled the Plymouthites with "Maid of Athens" and "Mulligan Guards...
...therefore, a prudent and statesmanlike measure for the government to provide for Elementary Military Education at the universities? The duties in this department need not be arduous, nor take up more than their due proportion of time, but let every well-educated man have a little knowledge of this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant...
...young man of a prudent turn of mind, who has just entered Harvard College, applied for insurance on his property in a prominent office in New York. A portion of the policy returned read as follows: "Insurance is effected on his education, raw, wrought, and in process, and materials for completing the same, including library of printed books, bookcases, musical instruments, eye-glasses and canes, statuary and works of art, wearing apparel, beds and bedding, contained in No. -, Thayer Hall, College Yard, Cambridge. Permission to work-extra hours, not later than 10 P. M., to even up work...
...ambition teaches the lesson of moderation in wine. But there are a large number of men, and they make up a considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...
...ecclesiastical hero: he had one purpose directing all the actions of his life, which was to make the Papal Church the supreme principality; he laid his plots deep, and was quick to seize every possible advantage in executing them; he showed himself many times to be a prudent and far-seeing statesman, a bold, unwavering, and most skilful diplomat. Such are the ordinary descriptions of these men. The question arises, Are there not more profitable studies than those which involve the committing to memory of facts like these? Is there not Natural Science to train young people to observation...