Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been made to do more thinking than before; it has been made to work out its own problems, as a means of being able to deal with emergencies. There was a great deal of doubt last spring as to the appointment of Coach Haughton. Nobody now doubts the wisdom of the choice...
...ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy in a peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light of his knowledge of the world; but this is poorly suggestive of the pervasive influence of his constant precept and example, which only those whose lives it shaped could duly witness...
...number anticipated by the organizers of the School, and this number is slightly increasing from day to day. Not only has the size of the school justified the hopes of those interested in its success, but the apportionment of the students among the various elective courses has demonstrated the wisdom and care with which they have been prepared. As an indication of the school's efficiency, however, registration figures will soon become of minor importance. It is the product that will henceforth be watched, and there is every reason to suppose that the success and prosperity of the Graduate School...
...ways. First, many men of exceptional intellectual endowments waste themselves and their abilities just because their very brilliancy makes them unwilling to undergo necessary mental drudgery. Again, a man's academic possessions interfere with his possibilities when they are accompanied by academic snobbishness which leads them to disdain the wisdom of intelligent but nonacademic persons. And thirdly, a man's intellectual possessions may be injurious to his mental possibilities if he allows what has been taught him to harden into formulae...
...inefficient. A committee of athletes and managers could select several possibilities at large, the winner to be decided by the class. Thus would the individual managers be relieved of the responsibility of making the choice, and the College of its usually groundless, but inevitable, doubts as to the wisdom of the selection...