Word: wisdoms
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While the University's curricula may encourage students who enter to "grow in wisdom" and "serve mankind" upon graduation, a degree in fine arts or social studies is not necessarily marketable, and doesn't ensure a future...
Chiseled over the Dexter Gate to Harvard Yard on Mass. Ave. is a surprising inscription. On the street side, the inscription reads "Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--nothing terribly shocking for a University. But the message written on the Yard side of the gate betrays its age: "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." These words designate the gate a relic, a memento from a time that has surely left us behind. The inscription, composed by Harvard President Charles William Eliot, class of 1893, elegantly expresses a concept of the university that seems archaic and foreign these days...
...proving especially good at this. In 1988 he watched in pain as Michael Dukakis was battered without mercy by George Bush. Clinton was so upset by the Democratic nominee's failure to punch back that he flew from Little Rock to Boston to tutor Dukakis staff members on the wisdom and methods of rapid response. But no one listened until it was too late; Dukakis thought the ads about furloughed killer Willie Horton did not need to be answered simply because they were stupid and wrong, ignoring the fact that they were devastating. By the time...
...conventional wisdom--advanced in several books and bolstered by Clinton's polls--is that liberalism is back. I doubt it. What is resurgent is not liberalism--a bold creed of government activism, long dead--but its shadow, a stealthy social parasitism that has just enough nerve left to force private enterprise, the golden goose of American prosperity, to do government's work...
What a thoughtful and eloquent piece by Krauthammer. How easily technology is transmitted from generation to generation, and how difficult it is to pass on painfully acquired wisdom. It is said, "Where illegality reigns by law, the rule of reason must withdraw." The current drive for assisted suicide can only be explained by our unwillingness to learn or by our inability to understand the wisdom of the past. HART C. BEZNER Waterloo, Ontario Via E-mail...