Word: foresight
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...Foresight in a body of student representatives is rarely found; the often unwillingly elected intermediaries between faculty and undergraduates are usually content to consider merely what is handed to them in cut and dried form. It is therefore encouraging to note that the Student Council is looking to the future...
...motto "Occasionem Cognosce," which is inscribed above the main gate of Lowell House at Cambridge, will serve as an adequate and fitting memorial to the foresight of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell in undertaking the establishment of the Harvard house plan, the most significant of the achievements of a brilliant academic career. For President Lowell has never more surely seen his opportunity and acted upon it than when he enlisted the sympathies and generosity of Edward S. Harkness...
...milked cows, told funny stories, drew great crowds, saw his campaign posters and stickers everywhere. San Francisco gave its Mayor a record vote despite the fact that every newspaper was against him. Even Los Angeles, won by Fitts, preferred Mayor Rolph to Governor Young. (Perhaps Mayor Rolph's foresight in getting the job of Grand Marshal in the Tournament of Roses [Pasadena] last winter had something to do with the result.) Wets claimed their votes nominated Mayor Rolph. Drys busily explained that the combined Young-Fitts vote, a majority, showed California's faith in Prohibition...
Airways along the Pacific Coast are dotted with "service stations" marked by neon-lighted towers-aircraft fueling points erected by Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
...members of this year's Council, besides exhibiting naivety the equal of its predecessors' a year ago, are even more to be blamed, for they have failed to profit from experience. Already rumors are current of activities taking advantage of the Student Council's lack of foresight and judgment. Is it too early to disillusion those who may run next year's elections and suggest that space for signatures be included on the Student Council ballots in 1931, in accordance with the practice in force in all other class and college elections...