Word: foresight
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...great national problems, and has known the famous Americans of the last half century. Then, too, Major Higginson's talk is of especial interest to us, for he has always been strongly devoted to Harvard and in sympathy with the welfare of the students. By his generosity and his foresight he has influenced the course of student life here, and has given us in the Union and Soldiers Field the means of broad, democratic fellowship. We rejoice at the opportunity to welcome this evening the friend whose interest in the University has never flagged...
...short time away, and that, in coping with these initial examinations, a solid grounding in one's courses is more than necessary. The man who makes sure of his work now will come out on top at the first of next month and will be duly thankful for his foresight. Now is the time to get a good start. Make the best of the opportunity...
...mass of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and manuscript material showing the embodiment of this faith in the growth of the West. There will thus be collected in Harvard University Library, as a single storehouse, the means necessary for defining the part played in the making of the West by the foresight of Eastern men in the past, and at the same time of the growth of a new America west of the Alleghenies in which the ideals of all parts of the East have been brought together and reshaped by settlers not only from the East but from the best...
...framers of the Constitution showed wonderful foresight in providing for laws regarding interstate commerce, for corporations have grown since that time from local to national scope. So far as a corporation goes into interstate commerce, the national government is the only government that has any power over it whatever, either to control, regulate, or protect, and with the change of corporations from local to national organization, we have their control coming more and more within the sphere of the federal government where it properly belongs...
When the Aeronautical Society was founded, few of its members realized the possibilities of such an organization, but, through the foresight of its manager, the society was early incorporated and affiliated with the Aero Club of America. Had these steps been neglected, a meeting of world-wide significance would have been an impossibility...