Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wise as to be able to say that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...
...that Yale may finally look with a little more equanimity at the future, football-wise, it is quite to the point to raise a question or two which it was not possible to raise during the time Yale could not rise above the conditions imposed upon her. There are a number of such questions; but what we particularly refer to is the present Princeton Harvard-Yale schedule, wherein Harvard has a two-weeks' rest between her two final games while Princeton and Yale both have to play their two games on successive Saturdays. . . This year Yale probably met no stronger...
Patriostism has been regarded by many wise men as the highest of all the virtues. It is taken for granted by the undergraduate that Harvard is the supreme university in the country, and perhaps, if his maternal love goes so far, the first in the world. All men go to the football games and cheer that team which they have come to feel represents in some measure the spirit of the University. In the winning touchdown they are apt to believe they see the reason why Harvard is supreme...
...Presbyterian Hospital shares, for a medical centre and a graduate school of medicine and surgery. For the development by graduate instruction and original research in science, for the improvement of the public health and the mastery of obscure diseases, such an institution would be invaluable. A word to the wise millionaires, to all the forehanded wise, should be sufficient...
...will convene in New York City in the last week of December. Columbia University, New York University, the City College, and the American Museum of natural history will have general charge of the convention, at which an attendance of more than 2,000 is expected. Dr. Charles R. Van Wise, president of the University of Wisconsin, will preside...