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...University teams was $8,990.19. Last year it was $5,013.58. Still, small as is the present contribution, it is much needed, and until there is some sign that we can curtail instead of continually increase our expenses, the policy of the Athletic Committee must be prudent rather than thoughtlessly liberal. Under the best of circumstances we shall still have to practice careful economy for years to come. ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE...
...real estate and sometimes carry on business for a brief period while closing up an estate; but the proposition before us is that a self-perpetuating board of five trustees undertake to carry on a mercantile business, with the details of which none of them can be familiar. No prudent owner of a business fails to give directors to a business manager who has only a salary interest. When we consider the number of commercial failures made by business men who have the most active personal interest in success, this responsibility becomes very serious. It will be observed that while...
...husband and father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...
There seemed to be little choice of plans; in fact, no prudent course but a seeming retreat to Memphis and a new attempt by central Mississippi...
...Reading.Haydon says in his diary that we learn nothing after twenty, and perhaps this is so far true that the impulse which leads us to wisdom or to unwisdom may be thus early given to the character. In books, as in the world, it seems to me not only prudent but delightful to keep the best company. By that means the brain becomes at last plenam semper et frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from a really...