Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep the water...
...Hoover's recent plea for material aid in that field. But he stressed a rather different point. His interest was, after all, in pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...
...prudish, proud, and prudent...
...Prudent critics have arraigned the artists and musicians of this latter day, not without some show of justice, for being jongleur who, tongue in cheek, execute their insolent pastiches, sing their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy...
...Scott and Fowles Gallery, Manhattan. The critics who visited it were prepared for the famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly, Classicism. And because...