Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...income should determine expense. In other words, these kindly Procrusteans propose to build a bedstead of ample size, and then to secure a fit by stretching out their prospective lodgers. If the lodgers were all to be tall men, this idea might be very good, but it is scant wisdom where accomodations are professedly designed for all, and when at least half of the public are certain to be woefully "short...
...Athletic Committee has, by a recent decision, declared Tewksbury and Baxter eligible for places on Pennsylvania teams. The "Pennsylvanian," through its editorial column, questions the wisdom of this decision, although it states that the Athletic Committee has acted in accord with the present rules...
...constitution but half interpreted there arose the need of a great lawyer to explain clearly and aright the true principles of the American scheme of government. Cases involving the subtlest points of the Constitution came before Marshall during his long term as Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John Marshall brought "a great stateman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persuasive reasoning, a great...
...power of Christ came, first, from his unwavering devotion and obedience to the will of God. Men of strength who acknowledge no higher strength, men of genius, who do not acknowledge the superior wisdom of God, do not lead men but repel them; only those who point, like the compass needle, unchangingly to a pole where lies all power and influence are those who direct and guide the world. Jesus Christ by a standard of right above and beyond himself was able to point men to ideals and attainment, higher than their own and was able to make them follow...
...civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these as well as the enemies from without. Among the Southern people themselves there was a growing discontent but they did not even begin to question the wisdom or rightness of their life because the abolitionists attacked them from without. The leading men of the lower South displayed a constantly heightened pride and a more and more stubborn unwillingness to concede anything whatever to the outside opponents of their system. But no success attended the efforts...