Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee to confer with Faculty members and with the Athletic Committee on the present tangled situation, we expressed some regret that final action on the winter sport proposal had not been taken before a further move was contemplated. We did not intend, however, to cast any reflections on the wisdom or the necessity of the appointment of such a committee...
...Faculty action was but a passing whim,--any recommendation from the Faculty of Harvard University is bound to carry enormous weight. The statement was justified, for the Athletic Committee now feels compelled to take some definite action. Much as many members of the Committee may hesitate over the wisdom of the move, they cannot disregard entirely the Faculty's will. And so they adopt the least damaging concession...
...James Anthony Walsh, Archdiocesan Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, will deliver a sermon on "Worldly Wisdom and the Folly of the Cross" in St. Paul's Church, Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets, this evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Catholic Club...
...inquire into the wisdom of such an ordinance, based as it must be upon a knowledge of what is best for the student body. We do not wonder even that the restriction includes the color of the ink. That the minds of a public liable to excitement should be inflamed by the announcement of a concert, or of a debate, on a placard printed in colors other than red and black, would be an offence against order. It is doubtless unwise that there should be any person in the audience of a College entertainment who is not a friend...
Theodor Barth, "Lawyer and judge, author on social and economic themes, journalist, honorable representative of German democratic idealism, of the power of public opinion declared through the press, and of that German culture from which this University has happily gathered and still gathers wisdom and inspiration...