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Word: wisdom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buildings of all styles simply beauty of ancient Hollis architectural bathos of Weld. Behind University Hall a lovely Hall indeed is an other rectangle into which, crowds the monstrous dignity of Widener Library. Through these spaces move the students the faculty sauntering past squirrels who live by a wisdom of their own in this colossus of learning. In winter boardwalks are put down and fur coated the young men go their open galoshes clattering above the crunch of rubber on snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core of This University is the Yard Asserts California Professor Who is Harvard Graduate | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...felony and is equally guilty as the person making the sale. . . . Whether it was wise to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of people of the U. S. felons in the eyes of the law is a matter addressed not to this court but to Congress. . . . The wisdom of the law is one thing, the constitutionality is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Millions of Felons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...time, this group will be included, or whether separate quarters will be provided for it is still in doubt. But before the problem of the disposal of these some 200 students is finally solved, it is necessary to note both the lack of fairness and the lack of wisdom in separating the Engineering School from the remainder of the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems of our civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...imitated and what avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains. Inevitable disagreements with the captain's general policy and wide spread disapproval of patently faulty judgment in his picking and handling of men are frequently encountered here at Cambridge, and are generally of a more disagreeable sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Student Finds System of Amateur Coaching Falls Far Short of Full Perfection | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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