Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to occupy our places as university undergraduates for a few days; for there are many of the thoughts of youth, psychological shifts of one sort or another, which come to these older men through the haze, be it ever so faint, of memory. And, though to age belongs wisdom, in youth there is a degree of sound instinct, together with the normal allotment of human nature...
...Union's financial soundness is totally independent of the Dining Room with any regularity; and this is the part of the Union that will be most affected by the new regime. Its social and recreational importance may be much greater under the House Plan than now, unless the wisdom of Jove guides the selection of those living in the same House...
...project develops from its present circumspect beginning the appearance of more radical productions is to be expected, but the continuance of the present wisdom of those in charge should certainly result in a corresponding development in the taste of its patrons. Certainly false felts are quelled and a satisfactory hope for the future aroused by the initial exhibit of this most recent addition to the complex of advantages that is Harvard...
...Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
...platitude that examination wisdom is not true understanding of the subject. The fact that the Junior divisional examination taken by students in History and Literature is the same as that offered the Seniors indicates the compression into three years of knowledge ordinarily acquired in four; while this compression may bring examination wisdom, it will hardly bring, in most cases, more than that...