Word: foresight
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...With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made a brilliant success. Transportation, schools, justice, government, and above all yellow fever had to be dealt with in a manner demanding of the governor the highest qualities of judgment character and action. The foresight and courage with which he supported the experiments of the medical men for the extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D...
...workers in the maintenance of the highest standards of education and of character, the present undergraduates will realize more and more deeply as the year pass by. Theories of education differ, but the ideals remain unchanged. The preservation of the best things of the past, liberalized by a broad foresight into the future, and their application to the problems of the present, is by no means the least function of the American university and university men. In this work all college are united. The cause of one is the cause...
What Major Higginson did for the social and athletic aspects of College life is so prominently before us in such concrete forms as the Harvard Union and Soldiers Field, that we often overlook the great influence exerted by his foresight and generosity in the development of music--that art which, although it appeals so elementally to all human beings, is often difficult to estimate, just because it is so elusive and mysterious...
...therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number of the Lampoon is expected to have the greatest sale on record for any college magazine which will number at the end of its second edition twenty-five thousand copies. This speaks very well for the literary ability and business foresight of those in charge...
...right of representation is no very radical plat-form; it is not only-justified but inevitable. An employer is in no way compelled to accept the advice offered, provided he has an open shop. Refusing this right at this time of strained relations is showing a great lack of foresight...