Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the flurry of Divisional Examinations has been completely smoothed out, the Economics Department deserves hearty congratulation upon the skillful job which it displayed in making up the Junior Departmental. Undergraduate approval of this fair examination has been universal, and rightly so. The Department has made a wise choice in selecting its test designers...
George Norris thought one small, carefully-selected, well-paid body, its members few enough to feel individually responsible, would offer smaller chance for buck-passing and lobbying than the old Senate & House. Too wise last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes...
...Pennsylvania's Law School, called on the late great Elihu Root with a plan which he and Harvard's Joseph Henry Beale had discussed for years: the establishment of a law clinic charged with the monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation...
Died. Effie Wise Ochs, 76, relict of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, mother-in-law of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; of heart disease; in White Plains. N. Y. Her father, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, founded Reformed Judaism...
...important point in Dr. Williams's favor, however, is that his experience in the world of practical finance has been as thoroughgoing as his experience as a teacher of economic theory. Thus, for the last four years--years that have been extraordinarily critical banking-wise--Dr. Williams has divided his time between teaching his classes at Cambridge and taking an active and intimate part in the task of running the nation's financial system...