Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they have no chance to digest ; and they come to play mere parrot roles, learning their task-work without any stimulus to awaken their powers of observation or shape their judgment...
...enlarged beyond the demands of the students, those are to blame who enlarged it. If there are only 790 men in college who care enough about their money to go to the trouble of buying where they can buy cheapest, then the directors were quality of an error of judgment when they counted on there being more than a thousand such men. But we shall suffer sadly without co-operation in some form, and the thing to do now is to secure it, and secure it, if we can in a better form than that which has just proved itself...
...Dalton, vice-president of the Maine Harvard Club, and we carefully considered them. He authorized me to say that he cordially agreed with me in what I am about to say. We sympathize fully in regard to the object at which the young gentlemen arm. It is, in our judgment, impolitic, if not unjust, to require attendance at prayers of all undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from...
...graduate committee for their past efforts in behalf of college boating. The further business consisted of voting an appropriate testimonial to Col. Bancroft, the late coach; for his long services with the crew, and of voting that the advisability of having another graduate committee be left to the judgment of the executive committee of the club...
...proper standard of fair dealing. It was an utterly inexcusable act on the part of the three men in question to refuse to play, because the time did not suit them; especially when by so doing they weakened the team very seriously. It was an error of judgment on the part of the captain to refuse to play with a team on which there were three substitutes, however crippled the team might be. And it was not fair to Harvard to notify her at so late a date that the team could not play, If no decision had been reached...