Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguments that persuade Faculty members that a joint committee would now be wise differ sharply from the visions shared by radical student advocates. Some members of Students for a Democratic Society want to see a committee that will bring to an end, for example, military recruitment on campus. Ford has said that he sees little possibility for a significant change in Harvard's recruitment policy; according to Hoffmann, the only Faculty criticism of his motion has been on the provision for a suspension of recruitment; Hoffmann himself says that the suspension request was ill advised, and that while he doesn...
Though the HPC still supports the idea of a free fifth course, their plan this year in no way hinges on it as last year's did. "Isolating the two issues was wise," Edward T. Wilcox, secretary of the CEP said last week, "because of the fiscal implications of the fifth course. We would have to make estimations of how many might take the fifth course and there would clearly be a budgetary limitation...
...that future historians may look back upon those of us who now feel angry as we look back upon the early forerunners of basic social transformation. But if that doubtful consolation awaits us (for the judgment of history is ordinarily what gets into second-rate textbooks), it is also wise to recall that those early forerunners did not always stick to "acceptable" means of protest...
...more than luck is involved. In nation after nation that has been rent by insurrection, subverted by conspiracy, or defeated by enemies, it is not luck that has run out, but judgment, and the capacity to live with one another, the ability of the people to pick wise rulers, and of those picked to rule wisely. It is a curious quality of those who suffer least from these disabilities not fully to understand the source of their strength. An Englishman, an expert in guerrilla warfare, put it, I think brilliantly, to a Washington friend about a year ago. The visitor...
...that we have governed ourselves successfully in the past, and they are not the less the occasion for confidence on that score in the future. Our students today are not raising hell because they are mindless, but precisely because they are thoughtful. Which is a different thing from being wise, but surely a precondition of wisdom. All in all a good state of affairs for a society that can respond to it. The question is what that response is to be, and how it is to be mounted...