Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Optimistic undergraduates as well as those many graduates whose connection with Harvard is indissolubly bound up with traditions of classes will probably read with feelings approaching sadness the statement made in the news of the Winter Quarter that "It would seem to be the part of wisdom to recognize frankly that there are grave disadvantages as well as advantages in social organization along class lines, that as a result of the great growth of the University, the introduction of the elective system, and other causes, it has long since been outgrown, and therefore to abandon all efforts to revivify...
...injured men from returning to the play too soon. This apparently excessive caution of the surgeons met in some cases with bitter opposition from the players. In fact, one man, at least, stated that if it were not for the presence of a surgeon, he would be playing. The wisdom of caution, however, was shown by the fact that in but two cases were men allowed to play so soon as to have an immediate recurrence of their previous disability. On the other hand, it must be stated that the position of the surgeon is rather a trying one. Football...
...eminently a representative of the highest and most sacred ideas of the civilization of India, Mr. Ramanathan stands for the unity of faith. As a "Brahma-Jnani," or knower of God, he is master of the science of spiritual wisdom which deals with the principles underlying both the visible and invisible worlds...
About a year ago the Committee was called upon to face a new situation. It is a futile waste of time to discuss now the wisdom of building the Stadium. Few, at least of the undergraduates, would maintain that the gift of the class of '79 should have been refused by the Committee, not to say the Corporation, on account of the additional expense it has entailed. Thanks to this expense, and to the feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared...
...gates, built in memory of a Harvard man, you read as you go in "Enter to grow in wisdom," and as you go out "Depart to serve they country and they kind." It is gate that is always open, and it swings easily both ways. Its inscription is a message of your College today. You have entered to grow in wisdom, now depart to serve your country and your kind...