Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beautiful little poem published in the Crimson some time ago, "Blonde and Brunette." His next choice, he says, "deserves an honorable place in college poetry," though published where he "would by no means have looked for it." namely, in the Vidette. After all this condescension and display of superior wisdom, it is rather astonishing to find that the poem in question is not only cast in one of the forms which he especially despises, i. e., a rondeau, but that it is by a living English poet of good standing, Mr. Austin Dobson. "Some one has blundered...
...that few electives in Mathematics are ever chosen. The result is that students are not so well educated in these most desirable branches, at the end of the college term, as they would have been had a more judicious method of instruction been employed. We do not appreciate the wisdom of making the Freshman the hardest year. The standing of a student at the end of the Freshman year is no criterion of what he can or will do in subsequent years, and if the course complained of is intended to weed out the poorest scholars of the class...
...mathematics which seems to be required would strike terror into the heart of any one but a Peirce. "The measurement shall be from the nearest break of the ground made by the ball, perpendicularly to the scratch line, extended, if necessary, to meet this perpendicular." We see now the wisdom of the provision in regard to honorary members. The Executive Committee doubtless intend to elect the Professor of Surveying an honorary member, with the special duty of performing this difficult mathematical feat. We would also suggest that the Committee make arrangements for hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which...
...justification, in the conditions required from competitors for the well-advertised "prizes" which we have been considering, together with the great increase in the rent of desirable rooms. Now, if this latter policy is to be continued, - and, in view of the pecuniary necessities of the College, its wisdom is not disputed,- it is submitted, that to open scholarships to the competition of all would be precisely the counteracting movement which is emphatically called for. The present restrictions upon these emoluments are discouraging to the sons of professional men who are just holding their places in the bitter struggle...
...circumstances. which may possibly arise, and every imaginable source of trouble which can be foreseen must be removed in advance. The veriest trifle may destroy the success of a boat-race, - bring vexation to the crews and discomfort to thousands of spectators, - and it is therefore the part of wisdom to provide against every conceivable contingency, no matter how remote or improbable...