Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another question, the state of feeling in the College concerning study, to the full as important as the matter of morals, it may be doubted whether the judgment of any one man ought to be trusted. But if the attention is turned to the classes year by year, as they change their character with their names, it is manifest that in every class, since the Freshman year, the number of real students has been steadily increasing. Until lately, indeed, the improvement in the tone of the classes was far more than would have been suspected from the columns...
...This judgment will perhaps surprise you. It would need, I confess, some further developments before being accepted as true in a free and Protestant country. But these considerations lead me too far from my subject. I come, then, to what is the subject of this letter, - the Primary Schools...
...manner of instructing, in Freshman year, gives little opportunity for difference of opinion or exercise of judgment. There is no alternative, you must believe without any modification the theory or interpretation proposed by a single writer. Keeping fully in mind that the embryo professor must imitate before he can originate, we feel that the question whether their instruction is profitable to those who are trying to prepare, in the short period of a college course, as thoroughly as may be for the duties of life, is worth a little consideration...
...feel obliged to repeat to some of our contributors what has been said so often before, and ask them to use a little more judgment in their selection of subjects. To find a good subject upon which to write, we know from sad experience is a difficult thing; for the columns of a college paper, to be readable, cannot be open to a very wide range of discussion, and consequently, from this necessary limitation of choice, interesting topics are hard to be found...
...responsible for their actions only to the Faculty and to themselves; and if they choose to elect men who can stand on their heads and to leave out those who cannot, it is no one's business but their own. We consider it no more our province to pass judgment on the action of societies than to publish the fact that Mr. A of '74 is a fool, that Mr. B of '75 dresses in bad taste, or that Mr. C of '76 makes an ass of himself...