Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very obviously this is an unfortunate and almost tragic state of affairs. That the words of intelligent men, thinkers of real insight and some practical ability, should be unable to reach the ears of the powers that be is due largely to those two superstitions of our political leaders, silence and economy. Senators and other party leaders will perhaps read the report of the Columbia specialists, but what effect will their words have on the settlement of the debts? Almost certainly they will have none. The debts have come to have a bitter, almost raucous note in conversation. Forty...
...general, important as those services were. His influence was also great in the field of secondary education, and in elementary education as well. The reforms which he advocated, many of which have permanently enriched education from the grammar school to the university, are a monument to his penetrating insight and his practical wisdom...
President Eliot's leadership was not due to his impressive personality nor to his office, although these were advantages of which he made good use. His insight and his judgment so often compelled respect that men came naturally to depend on him for guidance. And he had the rare quality of greatness that caused him to change his mind when he felt that his opponents were right, as they sometimes were...
Unsocial Engineers. Not enough social insight nor responsibility, concluded the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education last week, among other charges laid to U. S. engineering students and faculties. The report followed a three-year investigation in the U. S. and Europe, at a cost of $200,000. Recommendations: 1) more study of the humanities and economics; 2) elimination, by stricter entrance examination, of misfits; 3) provision for better teachers...
...These papers by the Curator of Prints in the Metropolitan Museum are a happy combination of scholarship, insight, and informal literary skill. As a means of augmenting the happiness of those who visit museums, these papers are to be recommended."--New Republic...