Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combining the positions of dean of the Scholarship Committee and head of the Student Employment Office in the same person during the past year, the University has taken a wise and logical step. Recognition of the interrelationship between awarding scholarships and procuring employment has already led other universities to unite both offices under one man. Harvard is, therefore, following in a well-tried path...
Retired Boss Pendergast, his nephew or other big shots of the organization may possibly be subpoenaed, but there is little chance of their being indicted. Those wise in the ways of Kansas City politics feel sure that the Pendergasts have taken no direct part in irregularities, have never even hinted that votes be stolen or lists padded; that they merely told their subordinates to get all voters to register and vote Democratic, ward patronage to be apportioned according to results. Hope that this week's trial might break up the Pendergast Machine rested not so much on getting...
Fulton of Oak Falls is certainly far less than that, as even admirers of Actor Cohan could not deny. In the O'Neill play the wise and sunny character of the small-town father was allowed to grow naturally out of the story. In Fulton of Oak Falls it seems necessary for other members of the cast to butter him incessantly with such adjectives as "good," "gentle," "saintly," "grand" and "steady." He tells his next-door neighbor, a clergyman, that he was in love when he was young, that the girl went to Heaven, that although he has carried...
Election, on Saturday, of Dr. Charles Seymour, former provost of Yale and professor of History, as President of Yale University drew praise from all sources. Officially President Conant spoke for Harvard, but unofficially, President Seymour was hailed as "a wise choice", "an able administrator", and a "distinguished scholar" here...
...Catholics, was clamoring for custody of all the Catholic Church's Philippine property. This matter was partially solved when the U. S. paid the Vatican $7,200,000 for its lands, William Howard Taft, civil governor of the Islands, simultaneously suggesting that it might be wise for the Church to send some U. S. bishops to the Islands...