Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphasizing his tenet that wisdom is necessary in the leadership of the country, President Conant declared, "Wise men are most easily differentiated from fools in times of sudden emergency, and a study of history, I believe, makes for wisdom...
...first year men along this line. Detailed course requirements are set forth in each of the various departmental catalogues. Numerous lectures are given in the Union by competent authorities, listing the merits, and warning of pitfalls which might be encountered. The latest innovation designed to prod Freshman to a wise choice is the lecture to be given this morning by Professor J. P. Baxter and Dr. Arlie V. Bock to which all members of the Class of 1940 are invited...
Seldom is the U. S. religious scene without a drive or campaign of some sort. Currently prelates and publicists of the Roman Catholic Church are engaged in telling the faithful how gravely they are endangered by Communism. An Episcopal group led by Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio is attempting to deepen the spiritual life of the Church through a Forward Movement. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is trying to do like wise and to liquidate a $385,000 mission ary debt through a Bishop's Crusade, to which the most notable response to date has come from...
...year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy indulgence" by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. increased from 17.6% in the year ending April 1932, to 23.8% in the year ending last April; admissions...
Since Harvard awards a total of approximately three hundred thousand dollars in scholarships to six hundred men every year, it is essential that the awards be on as wise and accurate a basis as possible. Insofar as Mr. Sharpe, continues to make needed changes which work toward a better distribution of these funds, he will be contributing of the achievement of President Conant's goal of "a carefully administrated scholarship system...