Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...
...question of what degree of free dom shall be permitted to students is a very delicate one. The transition from school to college is at present so violent and in cases so disastrous, that it is doubtful wisdom to widen the breach Freshmen should be subject to the examination system as they now are, in order that their fitness to do college work may be tested and in order that a new found freedom may not develop into licensed idleness. Sophomores, also, should be subject to the examination with the exception of those who as Freshmen reached Groups...
...Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom, restrains him from "rescuing" the girl, eloping with her, in the name of Individualism. The mother points out that such revolts, to be satisfactory, must be purely selfish...
...degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation, instead of adding to the crowded files of ineffectual protest...
...Constitution; and not only authorized but (if the electors deemed that Henry Ford was a more fitting President than Calvin Coolidge or any other) actually what the makers of the Constitution had intended. More than that, such an action might actually have taken place if, in their wisdom, the makers of the Constitution had decreed that the members of the electoral college were to meet all together instead of in their respective states. For in that case, the Electoral College might have had some prestige in the public eye and in its own eyes and might never have allowed itself...