Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...
...questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate, and of forming either an acquired opinion, or original judgment on them. These views may be erroneous and may be discarded by those who hold them; but they do not stand for nothing. They represent reading in live questions and practical thinking upon them. But this is not all that is accomplished. Practice in expressing views, whether they are erroneous...
...that many of the men best prepared in the subject of the examination do not necessarily take the highest places. The weight of a man's intellect, while it is of great value and importance, the amount of what he knows, often avails little against science. Knowledge and good judgment unfortunately do not always go together, and students at college often need advice as well as instruction...
Harvard University School of Veterinary Medicine, Session 1886-87. This time honored institution of learning, whose fame is world-wide in all that relates to science and art, has, in connection with its Medical department, established a Veterinary School, presided over by a veterinarian of rare accomplishment, ripe judgment, and unlimited practical experience - qualifications that are exceptionally beneficial in directing the course of studies to be adopted by students. This, coupled with the facilities afforded for original research in experimental medicine which Harvard alone affords, and its reputation as an educational centre, both in the past, present, and future...
...morning prayers are a survival. There was a time when there was nothing arbitrary in compulsory chapel, for the man who thought at all was sure to think that it was a good and useful institution. It might have been inconvenient, it might have been disagreeable, but the judgment of the student was certain to pronounce it salutary. Of course there must always have been some grumbling; there must have been in some quarters a pert condemnation of it; but such feelings must have been confined to the petulant and visionary. The average sense of the community pronounced without hesitation...