Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the apparatus which will be carried to Peru is a light portable frame building of one story with a ground area of three hundred square feet, which is to be the observatory of the party; the scarcity of wood and carpenters in Peru makes it prudent to build this here. The class of work which the expedition will undertake comes under the terms of the Boyden bequest. The cost of the work upon the Stella spectra is sustained by the Draper Memorial Fund...
...know that, in the sense in which it is not advocated in the Bible, political economy endorsed it either. For either the correspondent must translate his "saving" by "miserliness" or else convict himself of ignorance. But his most absurd remark of all is: "Christ himself was not prudent." Let me recommend to the writer Mr. Mill's masterly answer to the charge of "Expediency" brought against his "Utilitarianism." Is far-sightedness any the less sight than near-sightedness? If you mean by "prudence" near-sightedness, then we do not claim for it the meaning of far-sightedness, nor indeed...
...president and fellows have tried, through their treasurer, to manage the financial affairs of the university in a prudent and conservative way, though on the principle of applying their entire income to the objects of their trust. Since 1873 the times have been somewhat difficult for the trustees who had large permanent obligations like teacher's salaries, to meet with the diminishing income of safe investments in those 13 years the rate of income on the general investments of the university has fallen from 7 44 100 to 5 19-100 per cent, and it is still falling. The corporation...
...became officially known that official objection had been made, the most brilliant visions of a hilarious class meeting followed by a rush, resulting in the complete annihilation of the officious sophomore class, had danced in the happy imaginations of the verdant freshmen. But the president and faculty, with prudent foresight, anticipated the results of an evening meeting and told the committee appointed by the freshmen to take charge of the matter, that the meeting must be held in the afternoon. This is, of course, a sore disappointment to the entire sophomore class and many of the upperclassmen, but doubtless...
...practice, the editorial in question recommends "a class in extempore speaking, already introduced in one or two colleges, but worthy of wider appreciation." Such a course could not be otherwise than useful and popular at Harvard. Not only would valuable experience be obtained, but also under a sensible and prudent instructor, many faults in voice, manner, and language would be corrected. Thus the student could obtain in college, under favorable conditions, the practice and training which many graduates are obliged to obtain on public occasions, - often to the annoyance of their hearers and their own mortification...