Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...form of four yearly payments, is within the ability of most men. Much self-sacrifice has been shown on the part of those who have already subscribed. From the few men already approached there have been a number of $100 subscriptions. This implies a great deal of denial and foresight for some men; but it would be hard to find an object more worthy of a student's self-sacrificing gift. In this case it is also true that those who subscribe immediately, subscribe doubly...
Wherever Comenius went, in whatever countries he established his schools, he first tried to bring about the thorough study of the mother tongue. On this he laid the greatest stress and with what foresight and judgement we can best determine by the attitude taken at present by the leading universities, among which we can with pride and justice place Harvard among the first to take up this idea and present it in its modern form...
...they have made the rule concerning bicycling very detailed. In fact, although it is all but impossible to prevent misunderstandings in our athletic meetings of any importance, yet such misunderstandings can hardly arise through an ambiguity or vagueness in these rules, which have been framed with much care and foresight...