Word: foresights
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...series. That it lost the first game is unfortunate, but by no means a reason for discouragement. Not since 1903 has Harvard won a game at New Haven, but during the intervening six years she has won the championship as often as Yale. The coaches showed marked foresight when on Tuesday they, refused to put Hicks in the box. No matter how well he might have pitched then, he could not have eradicated Yale's twelve runs. Today he will start with a clean score...
...beginning of the year everything scholastic is in a state of disorganization. The time for selection is manifestly now, when the subject-matter and the scope of the various courses may be fairly observed and compared. Employed with foresight, attendance at sample lectures is an admirable way of deciding on one's curriculum. Used in the midst of the confusion of opening, however, it becomes misleading and defeats the possibility of accurate decision. By attending the lectures now, men still in doubt about their future courses will render a service to the Faculty by enabling the general machinery...
...student takes several such courses, he suddenly finds himself swamped with a quantity of written work which it is next to impossible for him to handle. Even if the subjects for these theses were given out at the beginning of the half-year, it would be expecting too much foresight from the undergraduate to presume that he would distribute the work so as to get it all done thoroughly by the time it came...
...medicine, law, and engineering. Narrow-minded prejudice against trade is, however, giving way to a new order of judgment, a spirit of true democracy, which recognizes a man by his deeds. The management of the department store, in all its complicated details, requires the greatest of intelligence and foresight. Each department must be handled with particular consideration, for the amount of capital and stock for the different branches of the business cannot be generalized. A system adequate for the successful operation of such a business is necessarily complicated in the extreme. The merchant must know how often to turn over...
...forty years he has administered the affairs of the University with wisdom, with patient foresight, with courage and with success...