Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University treasurers have never been constrained by any standard Harvard investment policy but rather have been given freedom to follow their own whim and wisdom. Naturally under the Statutes, the treasurer "is required to submit his accounts, and all evidences of the property under his charge, to the committees of inspection appointed by the Corporation and Overseers severally, and to make annually to the Overseers a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the University...
case (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944), when the question of the valuation of pipeline-produced gas was first raised. The Court held that the commission was not legally forbidden to use the cost-of-drilling system to set rates, but questioned the wisdom of the practice...
...Christians hope to build any systems of just governance? Barth doubts it. He first makes the point that, since every political system has some elements of good and evil in it, there is really not much to choose between them all. Continues Earth: "Something of God's wisdom and patience (though it may be only a reasonable traffic regulation!) will be revealed by even the worst political system. It has often been observed, and rightly, that the 'government' of whose divine institution the Apostle Paul spoke* was the 'State' of Emperor Nero...
...Under Blue Cross, however, the student is assured hospital coverage as well as anti-biotics, X-rays, and expensive medicines which are not now included under University coverage. If the medical staff feels that it is important for all students to be covered, and few people would deny the wisdom in this view, then it would seem equally essential that everyone be given the security of hospital coverage and the other advantages of Blue Cross, especially when it is a matter of less than ten dollars a year more...
...hope he saw for civilization was to have the Asians take over and run things on a simplified basis. Presumably, such a basis would mean hard lines for misfits. The Dean sometimes lashed out at medicine for keeping alive people nature would have got rid of "with perhaps greater wisdom...