Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fame in its wisdom is unpredictable, and when it functions by election it is sometimes incomprehensible-at least people professed to believe so last week. For the result of the election to the Hall of Fame* of New York University was announced. Two celebrities were chosen to decorate with their carved likeness the colonnade of Fame upon the Heights: Edwin Booth, actor, and John Paul Jones, naval officer...
...absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth of any comparison seems to reduce itself to this: undergraduates of today...
...answer I leave to you. Though retiring and shy, I believe it to be the right of CRIMSON readers to find my words of wisdom (the phrase is from one of my admirers) in the most convenient possible place...
...must be watered if it is not to perish in all but a few enthusiastic garrets. The President, and good fellows, and overseers and superintendents and foremen of Harvard were wise to see this obscure condition clearly, and courageous to remedy it. In action, their courage exceeded their wisdom, and they have constructed a mechanism so vast, and a financial reservoir of proportions so oceanic that the tender plant is in more danger of being drowned than not watered. However, let us not be pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst...
Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...