Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Postmaster Farley stole a march on the other members of the Cabinet with a shrewd stroke of business for the Government. With the appearance of a Mother's Da.y stamp bearing a copy of Whistlers Mother (with flowers in one corner), "General" Farley declared with a sure insight into the human heart...
...taken in conjunction with Dr. Conant's other notice recently issued, which calls for a thoroughgoing survey of the teaching burdens, in some cases inordinate, which the depression has thrown upon the younger instructors as staffs were diminished and assignments increased, gives excellent evidence of the new president's insight and understanding. He knows how to reach out to the minds of his teachers, and thus to develop the college as a true "community of scholars," for the best good of all concerned. --Boston Evening Transcript...
...question without trying to perceive its possible relation to later questions. A quiet and sane outlook on the examination as a whole will enable the student better to understand what kind of answers the professor probably had in mind when he made out each individual question--and such an insight is often more valuable than last minute factual cramming. --The Princetonian...
Although it will mean a raising of the standards for graduation to some extent, the move will give those of us in school a chance to get a little better insight on what soon will be facing us daily -- the outside world. In business, we are told, one must be able to deliver efficiency and progressiveness if he is to become a leader. The same will apply in scholastics...
WITH his "Principles of Harmonic Analysis" Professor Piston brings invaluable help to the student of harmony toward gaining an insight into the subject, an insight which cannot come through the working out of harmony exercises alone. The study of analysis should begin with elementary works in harmony, but advanced students, including professional musicians (provided they have studied harmony), would profit much by following through Professor Piston's analysis...