Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advice is the cheapest commodity in Cambridge today. Almost any Freshman, bored and weary after this round of first meetings, can castify to that. Appetite by a flood of sweet wisdom, he is apt to turn slightly sour at the thought of remaining further in the role of advisee. If this is the case it is unfortunate for two reasons. First, because interest in other people's welfare is a forced thing at Harvard and the years of plenty will be followed by a long lean term, advice is obtained only for the asking. Secondly, because the soundest, most reasonable...
...College will belong to the Freshmen for this fleeting period and it is to be hoped that afterwards the Freshmen will realize that in a certain manner they belong to the College and the traditions for which it stands. Each new student will listen to words of much wisdom; he will hear many speeches; it is possible that he will grow very tired of hearing speeches. In the end, however, he will have learned--as far as it is possible to learn without actual experience--What Harvard expects...
...phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas, but he will leave as much an individual as when he first entered to grow in wisdom...
...which 'definitely jeered at the second busiest holder of public office in the U. S. Said the Times: "It is a comfort to New Yorkers to think of their Mayor dressed in a double-breasted grey coat and. . . trousers, as he reclines upon the sunny sands. . . assimilating the wisdom he has acquired on the 'Grand Tour.'. . . They are proud to realize that his motto has been to improve each shining hour, even if this has meant activities far into the night. ... To the itinerant Mr. Walker falls the task of noting, marking and inwardly digesting . . . information...
Welcome. A year ago, General Pershing, Marshall Foch and many another highest endorser of American Legion's proposed reunion in Paris on the tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...