Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton Forrest first went to see Mary Garden he was a lean, wild-eyed youth who, in order to continue his musical studies, had been working as office boy in Mr. Insull's Commonwealth Edison Co. He showed Miss Garden an opera the libretto of which she, theatrer wise, pronounced impossible. But she recognized instantly Forrest's genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden objected...
...Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, rabbits, squirrels all thrive on the farmer's cultivated land. Other game lives better...
...between drives conducted by the Association, it was thought probable that large quantities of books, clothing, shoes, magazines, etc., are discarded by students, and for this reason it was thought wise to follow the system employed by the Morgan Memorial in placing burlap bags in various dormitory rooms in order that the students might easily be able to donate any offerings to this cause...
...rumored that the plain stone which is just above "Tutor's Arch" will shortly be graven with some appropriate sentiment, but that those responsible are in difficulties as to a wise choice...
...such time as they may be placed permanently in the Fogg Museum collection. The generous terms of the donor's will have provided that the installation shall not necessarily be accomplished for several years, the more generous in that it allows the directors and the architects to formulate a wise inclusion of the collection without undue pressure. In the meanwhile, the objects contained in the rooms, a few of which are on display at the Museum now, are to be stored or exhibited until such time as they shall be reassembled in their original state...