Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been solved, but solved beyond possibility of contradiction. Does the student of the fine arts rise to demand a place among artists? One glance in a ledger is sufficient to relegate the wretch to his proper place with the men of science. Thus controversy is eliminated. By one more wise regulation the honor of the administration has been vindicated...
...Children's Hour (by Lillian Hellman; Herman Shumlin, producer) is a neat theatrical blend of A High Wind In Jamaica and The Captive. Playwright Hellman, divorced wife of Cinema Scenarist Arthur Kober, has learned how to put a play together. She is also wise, to the arcane criminality of childhood, to the no less delicate subject of female homosexuality...
...itself. In deciding what is proper for us to broadcast, we must always bear in mind that broadcasting reaches persons of widely varying age levels and reaches them in family and social groups of almost every conceivable assortment. For this reason we do not believe that it is either wise or necessary to discuss, and sometimes even to mention, some things which may more properly be discussed in print, where each person may individually and privately concern himself with the subject...
These are but a few suggestions to solve the vexing problem of the distribution of courses outside a student's field. While they do not offer a perfect solution, they seem as satisfactory as any. Many there are who feel it wise to allow a student four courses and tell him he may take any four he chooses without regard to subjects at all. This does not seem acceptable with the present curriculum. The tendency might well be to take four snap courses which would not give one a semblance of what is optimistically called a rounded education. It seems...
Until better methods for teaching the classics can be devised for undergraduates, it still seems wise to allow a man the chance to take one of them as part of a requirement, and since their study leads one to logical thinking somewhat in the nature of mathematical lines, it seems advisable to suggest that either one ancient language or Mathematics may be offered to satisfy one distribution requirement...