Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those services were. His influence was also great in the field of secondary education, and in elementary education as well. The reforms which he advocated, many of which have permanently enriched education from the grammar school to the university, are a monument to his penetrating insight and his practical wisdom...
...nearly 18 years Harvard University has grown and prospered under your presidency. You brought to your high office ripe experience of public service, of teaching, of scholarship, and above all a clear vision of what this University may accomplish in leading its students to love learning, and the wisdom to discern the way. Under your leadership, scholarly attainment has become more attractive to young men here than ever before; and every part of the University has profited thereby. From the College now go each year into our graduate schools large groups of young men who have already distinguished themselves...
...PANCHATANTRA - Translated by Arthur W. Ryder - University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop...
...Darmstadt, Germany, lives a slender ascetic gentleman in life's early autumn; bald over the temples, high and round of brow, thinly bearded and of a faintly Oriental cast of countenance. He is Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher. He conducts a School of Wisdom, where mature thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find...
...Here in America your best men are not in politics," he continued. "By this I do not mean to belittle American politics, but to say that the best executive minds of the country are bound up in the business of the nation, with the consequent wisdom and efficiency in its conduct. These executives are constantly striving to improve the economic welfare of the land, and so there is little need for agitation among the working classes themselves for reform or betterment of general conditions. All this is handled by the business brains of the country that are always active...