Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago on March 20 Charles William Eliot stepped out on the temporary wooden platform in front of University Hall to face three thousand students filling the quadrangle from John Harvard's statue to the steps of Hollis Hall. To them he left his last legacy of advice, wisdom garnered in ninety years of life...
Governor H. J. Allen wrote: "With a humility which is after all, the beginning of wisdom a number of students have asked for better opportunities to study international problems. Our vessel sailed out of Shanghai dock, as she had sailed in, to the accompaniment of fire crackers and cordial cheers exchanged between the docks and the decks. The fire cracker seems to be to the Chinese what the Aloha is to the Hawaiian. It's their way of saying welcome and goodbye with emphasis...
...headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...
Miss Watkins, having gleaned craftsmanship wisdom from George Pierce Baker's drama school at Yale, wrote the robust satire, Chicago (TIME, Jan. 10). More recently, Miss Watkins has been writing of the doings of the Brownings for the New York World...
When Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert Lee Babbitt got up to speak, he roundly flayed the Fergusons. Then rose Mr. Moody. He spoke for less than five minutes. ". . . I ask, as did the Hebrew of old, that God give me now knowledge and wisdom to come in and go out before this people; for who can govern this people that is become so great...