Word: forethought
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...journeyed out from Paris to constitute, in joint session, the National Assembly of France. All provident, the Government of veteran Premier Poincaré despatched from Paris a truckload of beds and bedding, caused them to be distributed to good advantage among the hotels of Versailles. Came dawn. Through the forethought of M. Poincaré, the Senators and Deputies arose refreshed, complacent, found themselves even provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every sort were dispensed at prices far from high. M. Poincaré had not been extravagant in his preparations. He was about...
...Forethought Urgently Needed...
...still more since, we have heard much of the need of preparedness, and rightly so. But preparation should not be merely of material things, but of opinions. Most of all we need thinking to prepare for crises ahead. In fact there was never more need of forethought than now, for the public men of the present day are, as a rule, apt to take short views. For such a need educated men, and among them college graduates, are peculiarly responsible, because they have been furnished above others with the means of forming opinions by ascertaining the facts on which they...
...First President Lowell has held Harvard steadily at the front in progressive educational policies, some of them almost revolutionary in their nature, and our University remains a leader among universities. His forethought in securing the six French officers to train the R. O. T. C. is but an instance of many masterly strokes...
These Spring fancies which the sport writers tender their public are quite without malice or forethought. There is a simple naivete about them which should be commended and not condemned. The sport writer has become temporarily a columnist, a writer of fiction...