Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vital issues at stake in a simplified form before the members, and yet shows the real difficulties of general legislation; while too the individual members have to make a study of the peculiar wants of their constituencies, they gain much valuable information, which cannot but broaden them in their judgment, and make them less narrow in looking at matters from the range alone of their own districts...
...light breakfast and do not care for so much as we have at present. With this suggestion, which I recommend to the attention of the directors and the boarders. I close by calling on all to give the hall and the steward a fair trial before passing judgment...
...verbamagistra; this gives a happy self-satisfaction and freedom from doubts. If the teacher has been well chosen, this is sufficient in ordinary cases, in which the pupil does what he has seen his teacher do. It is only unusual cases that test how much actual insight and judgment the pupil has acquired. The French people are moreover gifted, vivacious, and ambitious, and this corrects many defects in their system of teaching...
...gratifying to Harvard. Although the charge that the Harvard crew, after defeating the Yale crew in such a fast race, was afraid to row Columba, last year, was a preposterous one, still we fear that there were many men from the New York college whose hopes so warped their judgment that they almost believed it. Such men will be relieved by the race just rowed. They will no longer be troubled by perplexing guesses at "what might have been." Of course our defeat this year would not have been an acknowledgement of fear last year, but, luckily, victory makes...
...test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level with the incompetent and the lazy - a fact which may seriously interfere with her future success in gaining desirable work...