Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that the dates were advanced almost two full weeks this year so that tutors could eliminate work with their tutees on the fields covered by these examinations and start the year on more important material. The wisdom of such an attitude, if it is true, is surely to be questioned in view of the chaotic conditions under which students are forced to take the examinations this year. The whole condition at present is surely far from ideal. Some arrangement of these examinations in the Junior year might eliminate many of the glaring deficiencies in the present system...
...were readmitted to the class of 1932 nearly one half finished last year with such unsatisfactory grades as to necessitate either expulsion or a period of probation. Not since 1921 has there been such a bad showing made by readmitted Freshmen. From these facts one can hardly question the wisdom of the Administrative Board in making more stringent readmission regulations, for in fact there was no other course open to them...
...greater returns from an advertisement that is actually read by one hundred thousand people than by an ad reaching three million people - most of whom an do not even see it, and very few of whom actually read the copy. Therefore TIME is to be congratulated on its wisdom. HARM WHITE President The Harm White Co. Cleveland, Ohio Sirs: There is a need for a newsmagazine such as TIME which can be read from cover to cover in not more than two hours time. I congratulate you on your purpose to limit the number of your pages...
Before vacationing Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams hung a matter requiring the wisdom of Solomon. The time for awarding the Navy's annual pennant to the battleship most efficient in engineering, gunnery and communication was drawing near. Two battleships, New Mexico and Maryland had tied for first place in the complex system of scoring. Never before had a Secretary of the Navy to meet such an unprecedented crisis...
...Chicagoan, played the best U. S. golf and until the semifinals, where he met and was defeated by Scottish Golfer John Norton Smith, seemed likely to win the cup. The Dawson golf, like the Dawson face, resembles that of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Golfer Dawson has learned a wisdom few able amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself at the 16th three up and three...