Word: wiser
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those whose honesty is even questioned. The second criticism is that it would have been much better to have waited until the Princeton match and victory were old and the undergraduates' blood had had a chance to cool. I have already said that such a course seems much the wiser. Although there may be unfairness to Princeton still the instinct of self-preservation is paramount. Now, after all, is Princeton entitled to so very much consideration? It is, of course, most unfortunate, that Harvard's record in the past is not free from spots. Every Harvard man, however, believes that...
...Faculty have not concurred and the overseers have accepted their opinion. We are heartily glad of this. If in the opinion of the faculty, who, as we have insisted, should have the controlling voice in matters of student government, reporting every morning is inadvisble, the Overseers could do nothing wiser than to agree. The Faculty, from virtue of its position, know thoroughly the needs of the students under them. It is a matter of great congratulation that this unnecessary and retrograde clause of the late recommendations has not carried through...
Despite these real difficulties, however, there yet remains abundant cause for self-congratulation. The policy of the faculty in regard to athletics, as mentioned in the report, has become wiser and more lenient, and has thus added another incentive to the spirit of co-operation which already binds to a considerable degree faculty and student. It is this sort of policy, and this only, which will allow our University to exert its fullest influence...
Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man and certainly a good liar one if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools who wanted them.- Amherst Student...
Would it not be eminently fairer and wiser for the faculty to so amend the rule as to make the bestowal of a cum laude dependent upon a certain fixed proportion of A's and B's throughout a student's course and leave the question of D's entirely aside...