Word: foresighted
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...many that the way in which the college troubles of last year were magnified and exaggerated by certain reckless newspaper correspondents, would be the means of decreasing the number of applicants for admission this fall. This would doubtless have been the case had it not been for the foresight of the trustees and faculty. A new course of study was prepared for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, made up of prescribed electives and optional studies, and substituted for the old prescribed course. The three vacancies in the corps of instructors were filled by the selection of young...
...number of students who have entered the Scientific School since October) that the Scientific is numerically as strong as either the Divinity or the Theological schools. It seems to me that the Cooperative Society will need help from every available source, and that it failed to display foresight when it repelled the cooperation of a considerable institution, which is now making a most rapid growth...
...devise such a scheme requires no little foresight, - to found a government that shall maintain its respectability has yet to be done. Of ours, some call it a farce, and others - well, others say nothing...
...suppose that these men could afford to leave their homes and come a thousand miles to attend such universities as Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when they have an income of perhaps one or two hundred dollars, shows a lamentable lack of foresight. In many cases they are compelled to be within a few hours' ride from home, in order that they may return frequently to help support the family. No one, of course, can doubt for an instant that there can be derived many advantages from the Eastern colleges that are unattainable...
...what the relative position of the two colleges will be, in this one branch at least, a dozen years hence. The study of modern languages, Teutonic and Romance, is surely, if slowly, taking the place of Greek and Latin in the scheme of liberal culture. Harvard will show foresight in not allowing herself to be surpassed by Columbia, the college which, from liberality of spirit and earnestness of purpose, must be regarded as her most formidable as well as most generous rival...