Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, the Corporation defended the wisdom of retaining the power to withhold permission for use of the buildings as "essential and proper." Pointing out that refusal will be rare, the Corporation concludes, ". . . attention is again called to the fact that Harvard has at no time adopted the policy of refusing permission to a speaker because of his party affiliations or his political views...
...wisdom of increasing even slightly the proportion of junior teachers in a university where it is already the practice to futurst a great deal of the undergraduate instruction to the less experienced teachers is open to serious question on educational grounds." Stone says...
...characteristic judicial opinion he wrote: "Should all the rewards which are due to foresight, wisdom and enterprise of the men who conceived and constructed wisely be transferred by legislative authority to others...
Stronger Than 1914. The wisdom of a cautious, controlled war economy, and the economic strength which Britain this time brings into the fight, were assayed last week by William Burton Burton-Baldry, London broker, in his lively Fortnightly Review...
...freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will combine for the immense task that will await...