Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already heavy crop sets forth a humble plea for longer vacations at Christmas and attempts to offer some reason for so pleading. Aside from the fact that Princeton, Yale and North Central High all have holidays of two weeks or more at this period it might well be wise at this point for the powers that be to look somewhat more carefully into this question which for the first time in some years has aroused sufficient student interest to bring forth a petition...
...accomplished at that time. The majority of the reading assignments are with a little application easily completed within the allotted time and the subtraction of three or four days should cause no suffering, and might easily add to the pleasure of the holiday season. While it might be wise not to lengthen the holidays before Christmas it seems highly possible to add the necessary days at the end to complete a two week period. Elementary courses would certainly find it difficult to be handicapped seriously be a missed...
...post is one whose importance depends wholly on its incumbent. Since Mr. Chamberlin's main interest has been in the regulation of monopolistic and what he terms "monopoloid" industries, his views should carry considerable weight, even with an Administration which does not enjoy the favor of the Seven Wise Men of Harvard...
...Economics of the Recovery Program," a profound treatise on the administration's measures, recently published by seven Harvard pundits, was severely scored yesterday in a letter addressed to "The Seven Wise Men of Harvard" and signed by one W. M. Dyer of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, whose name unfortunately cannot be found...
...have just read of the book you seven wise men have concocted; and what I hear of it is enough without reading the book. It sounds like New England, and it sounds like a lot of professors, proving how very dumb they can be. In your opinion, I presume, Mr. Hoover was right in letting Prosperity remain just around the corner, and that nothing should have been done about it. If all seven of you had brain fever (which none of you will ever have,) I suppose the proper thing to do would be to let you get over...