Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stacks upon stacks of volumes in Widener, and has, like Emerson, computed the hours it would take him to read the books in even one corner of that mammoth collection will recognize the present truth of this half-century old observation. In other matters Emerson often had a prophetic insight. So far the remedy he suggested for an overdose of libraries has not been used, but there is no reason why in this case, too, he cannot he heralded a prophet...
...when the boy gets in, he receives something entirely different from what is known as a university education in Europe. He gets, not so much an insight into ways of thinking and methods of reasoning, not so much a background of culture, as a training in 'leadership,' 'citizenship' and 'character.' This may be a desirable thing at the present point of development of the United States, but it is something quite distinct from the European conception of a university...
...Newman's work is well and entertainingly written, with a wealth of scholarship and a shrewd insight. He is never carried away by his theme, always preserves a just sense of proportion. And his inspection of the great musician's personal idiosyncrasies is far from devoid of a sly humor...
...took as his subject "The Stacking of the Cards", admitted that the next war was by no means inevitable, and declared that the League of Nations was the surest means of prevention. His intimate experience as a member of the Secretariat of the League has given him an unusual insight to the influence it works in Europe which are likely to contribute to another...
...next visited Boylston Hall, the new chemistry laboratory which had been built only three years before in 1857 and which was then the pride of the College in all its freshness. In order to give the Prince an insight into the way of life of his contemporary students at the American Cambridge, he was escorted to Holworthy 12, then occupied by Mr. Joseph Howe Wales, chief marshal of the class of 1861. The Prince, who was then a student at Oxford, expressed a great interest in the furnishings of the room and the style of living of a typical American...