Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...loyal to his ideals; nor did the unpopularity of any policy cause him to abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge...
...Resolved, That the retirement of Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard University, marks an educational epoch, not only at Harvard and in Massachusetts, but everywhere in the educational world; that his high character and keen insight and wise thought have stimulated and changed for the better collegiate, secondary, and elementary ideals and methods and have initiated an influence that will broaden and deepen as the years pass...
President Eliot described the methods by which the most necessary changes can be carried out. In no reform is it wise to perform untried experiments, but we should profit by the teachings of experience. It has been demonstrated beyond the possibility of doubt that a government of one chamber is superior to one of two. In the same way, the experiment of a government administered by one man has always failed. Another defect in our municipal systems is the election of delegates by wards or districts, the small interests of each local division interfering with the general interests...
...appointed by the Economic Club to study the condition of the city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...
...Firm, courteous, patient, wise, he has made the strenuous service of the College a satisfaction never to be forgotten by his associates in this Board...