Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their individual gifts but also in the large number of gifts they secured from others. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift of the gymnasium and his final gift to complete the fund, are, however, by far the largest part of the fund and constitute the most generous recognition of the wisdom of the project and a most valuable aid to the Medical School...
...short shift by many adult readers. Imagine undergraduates assuming to serve as critics of their teachers! The idea, if it could even have been conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already, and stands well qualified to assess the value and wisdom of all one's elders...
...Secretary of State is a little man, and he is rather nervous in his manner. So the giants of wit and wisdom who wander among the concentric semicircles of desks in the Senate Chamber looked at him quizzically, and between the making of one law and the making of another dubbed him "Nervous Nellie...
...amount of brilliancy in the practical rough-and tumble of life will ever make up for clear, wel-ordered thinking upon which to base sane judgment. No amount of instinct, flair or wisdom can ever take the place of intensive thought and study. And this is one of the gifts that scholarship confers, the habit of painstaking, analytical, thorough investigation of every problem that arises in life, the habit of clear thinking...
Dean BROWN, for his part, would probably join Professor SMITH in this view, while placing stress on compliance with the duly enacted laws even at one's discomfort or personal loss. Question the expediency or wisdom of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act and do what you can to bring about their modification or repeal if you believe them to be unnecessary or injurious, but obey them both. Democracy cannot endure without habitual obedience. That is axiomatic. On the other hand, it cannot progress to its highest state through standardization, extrinsic suppression or legislative restraints. It can have that...