Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most undergraduates that the Dean's refusal was not merely malicious nor an act of narrow censorship. There did appear a lack of judgment and sympathy with the legitimate operation of a student activity. Unless the Faculty committee concerned defines its position more clearly and makes provision for the wise use of its powers at all times, it may find that the fair name of Harvard entrusted to it has been needlessly splotched...
...swallowed secularism whole. "Liberalism did not propose a radical criticism of [U.S.] culture in the light of the Christian faith. Instead, it proposed a radical criticism of the Christian faith in the light of modern culture. . . . It expressed itself chiefly in a sigh of intellectual relief when it heard wise men declare that Christianity was just as simple as doing good and that the profundities of the Gospel were, after all, virtually meaningless...
Next fall the Student Council will "represent" the largest undergraduate body in the history of the College. University Hall will rely on this group for an accurate appraisal of undergraduate opinion on housing, tutorial, and other pressing College problems. In addition, the individual student looks to the Council for wise administration of the vast sums publicly subscribed to its Student Council Fund. But as the average undergraduate quietly subscribes his seven dollars to the Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice...
...apocalyptic, scarcely knew what to think or do. Most of them were inclined to accept the bomb stolidly-like an earthquake, an act of God. Few were even yet willing to accept Oswald Spengler's bracing pessimism about the age: "There is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice." But there was a growing sense that the Brothers de Goncourt had been grimly farsighted when they wrote in their Journal...
...money-wise, 52-year-old bachelor, Loeb recently toured the Midwest to see Wright's houses for himself. He admits that the temperamental old architect's notions are sometimes impractical in small ways, but thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience. Says Loeb happily: "Wright is good and he knows he's good...