Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WISDOM TOOTH?A clerk's anaemic character and how he strengthened it with a memory of his boyhood...
Even George Jean Nathan occasionally is correct. For when he suggested the admirable qualities of a play called "Morals", he was delightfully murmuring words of wisdom. "Morals" is an excellent play with an excellent moral--though an old one: judge not that no be not judged. And apt is the reading of, at least, the moral while America persists in presenting day after day in the pages of her newspapers such pseudo-ethicism as she has lately revealed...
...WISDOM TOOTH - A glowing fantasy about a clerk who caught again a few hours of childhood...
...ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...which the new office and the new appointee bestow upon the physical side of education redounds greatly to the completeness of the University. Mr. Bingham upon his admission to this promising position carries with him the good-will of all Harvard men as well as their appreciation of the wisdom which actuated his selection...