Word: judgemental
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Many observers are reserving judgement on the Core until Harvard develops specific courses because they realize the strength or weakness of a liberal arts curriculum lies in the individual courses and not in broad guidelines. Choosing to reform courses and not guidelines, a Johns Hopkins Physics professor, Gordon Feldman, is leading an experiment to develop four interdisciplinary courses that students can use in the next two years to fulfill general education requirements...
...women is potentially good, but Weill relies on conventional trappings of "liberation." The hyper-sensitivity of the two women in dealing with each other is cloying, their supportiveness towards each other is sincere but nothing new, and the last scene suggests that although their friendship is strong, it lacks judgement...
WHEN I ARRIVED at Harvard in the fall of 1975, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I was definitely wary. I had been warned, you see: my brother, whose judgement I trusted, had just finished his freshman year here, or rather, his freshman year had almost finished him. I couldn't believe how much he hated Harvard after that year, and how much he changed. His self-confidence seemed to be gone, but more shocking, his academic curiosity had completely vanished. He had been the more studious of the two of us, and now he wanted...
...groups, confident from the high turn-outs in the demonstrations last spring, believe they will be able to keep up the momentum for change. Some even express hope that they will see a broad leftward turn in the politics of the students. The more cautious students, however, hold back judgement on that point and continue developing organizing techniques and amassing the evidence they believe they will need to lead an effective fight against the University's investment policy in South Africa over the next few months and years
...excel, but rather merely extends the advantage enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client-handling ability, oral skills and leadership," among other skills...