Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formal education for the present you leave aside, but you will grow in wisdom nonetheless. Now knowledge will come to you by virtue of the sacrifices that you will be asked to make. Having been ready to run all risks for freedom, you will comprehend it as those of us at home cannot. On some subsequent commencement day you will return with the understanding born of great events. On that occasion it will be said to you as of the returning Harvard soldiers...
...know him as a stooped, gowned figure marching at the head of Commencement processions alongside of President Conant. They think of his name in connection with the House which bears it. But one of their most cherished possessions was protected and strengthened by his courage and wisdom: the untrammeled and uncensored teaching which they enjoy. In the years of the first World War and its immediate aftermath, academic freedom was under bitter and vicious attack from all quarters. But President Lowell was unbending in his declaration that: "We believe that if light enough is let in, the real relations...
...seems there was a coeducational youngster who had the misfortune to be cursed with dozens of cousins, sisters and aunts, all of whom had gone to the Institution across the Common. Asked by them where he intended to acquire his liberal education, he replied with all the wisdom of his tender years, "at the Radcliffe Boy's School...
With the same earthy wisdom the tenth plenary session of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee last week attacked China's seemingly impossible problem of inflation and price control. After dozens of schemes were suggested the delegates settled on one: henceforth the general price of all commodities will be in a fixed ratio to the price of salt and rice...
...space and expanded Main Street into the universe. In The Skin of Our Teeth he has annihilated time and turned the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...