Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wisdom of reorganizing the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign on a class team basis will, we hope, be amply justified. Already the drive has taken on new vigor, and at the present rate the quota of fifteen million dollars should be filled by the end of the year...
Equally to be admired are the fine generosity of his thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
...vein of paradox is glimpsed beneath these suggestions, it should not blind us to their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating trials a sadder but wiser man. We make no promises. J. J. TUTUN '20, Of the University Debating Team...
...that the Harvard Magazine should stand on its merits. It was in accordance with this idea that I had removed from the number now in press a cartoon unfavorable to the Harvard Magazine. In justice, let me add that the majority of the Advocate Board was critical of the wisdom of running any such notice of the new paper. It was after reconsideration and in accord with the sentiment of the Board that that cartoon was removed. The Advocate knows that the editors of the Harvard Magazine have their own, well-defined policy, and it does not recognize the right...