Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard Index appeared early this week. It lacks the alphabetical list of students, which was its most praiseworthy feature last year, and it is so incorrect, and so evidently a money-making enterprise, that we cannot help wishing it was issued by persons of better judgment...
...WRITER in the last Advocate kindly forestalls the last trump, and sits in judgment upon the Harvard student. We had expected light weight, but were surprised at total depravity. The Harvard student is reduced to a pygmy in the presence of the heroic figure that impersonates with that author the sublimed and etherealized student. Mental indifference and moral baseness furnish the lighter portions of the picture, for which fine clothes and cigarettes afford a sombre background. We recognize the tenderness with which he has touched off our little weaknesses as flowing from that culture which is most "sympathetic with every...
...doubt not you would have cautiously weighed the consequences, but here I presume you thought it would be a neglect of duty to lose one moment by consulting your understanding. We forgive your excesses and place them to the account of an honest, unreflecting indignation in which your cooler judgment and natural politeness had no concern...
...result of the races, so far rowed, show that no one club is pre-eminently superior to the rest, and that the division of the buildings was made with judgment. It is a curious fact that of the two clubs which stand first on the list - Holworthy and Holyoke - the first has a smaller number of members and the second a larger number than any of the other clubs, - proving that success does not depend on numbers. The fact that one club has not yet won a race seems at first to indicate that the composition of the club...
...could only conquer this school-boy fear of talking to a room full of people, I think that we should soon see the results in the increased efficiency of our officers. They would no longer feel that they are left almost entirely to their own judgment, and that all sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want...