Word: wisdome
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...quick to acknowledge that students’ industriousness and rivalries have produced many personal successes and worthwhile organizations. It is also good to know that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Harvard Yard. Yet, it seems pertinent to ask: at what cost, and toward what wisdom...
...Hall, and anybody who lives in a river house walks through it at least once a day. But for all of its traffic, few students notice the carved inscriptions in the stone arch above the gate. The outside of the gate reads, “Enter to grow in wisdom,” while the inside bears the message, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...notebook with supply and demand curves, I wondered whether it was part of former University President Charles W. Eliot’s (Class of 1853) plan when he thought of the inscriptions, that the gates would be locked at 7 P.M. every day, effectively hindering townies from growing in wisdom and freshmen from serving their country. I also wondered how much wisdom I had gained from the countless midterms and finals I took within those gates. It occurred to me that I might have an incomplete understanding of “wisdom...
...walk out of the gates this Thursday, I hope that people will take the time to look up and around, at the messages that President Eliot left, and at a campus we will hopefully return to in years to come, with greater wisdom...
...other candidates, such wounds might be mortal, but McCain has defied conventional wisdom and won in the past. His approval rating among independents and some Democrats remains strong, and he is tied with Obama in national surveys. A senior Republican adviser to one of McCain's former rivals appraised the situation this way: "Not raising money, still no excitement, can't seem to get his footing, the Bush brand is toxic, and yet it still looks like he can win," the adviser said. "All that is so John McCain...