Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down in middle life. Intellectual effort alone will rarely kill. It is anxiety that kills. The law is not infinite. An enlightened understanding and command of it is possible. Charm of voice and manner is desirable, but not necessary to success. A soothing and composed manner, tack, and good judgment especially, are desirable. Successful lawyers are, as a rule, honest men. Great chances don't announce themselves before hand. You must have the thing on your mind all the time if you would succeed. The law is the place of thinkers, not often of poets or artists. To think great...
...self-control and self-determination, and in the university must be left free to elect whatever he chooses, and take the responsibility. If, now, the college be such only in name; if it be in reality a university; if its work be special and elective - election determined by students' judgment - certainly no such college can consistently require attendance upon chapel services. If, again, a college be in part general, in part special, in part college, and in part university, it may not be clear whether such services should be required or not. The question can only be determined...
...simple statement of the facts is enough to make everyone form a judgment on the affair. If the man who has been guilty of the wrong is found out, we shall publish his name without hesitation...
...fact that college graduates are famed for their free trade opinions, and that almost no opportunity is given for a forcible representation of the protectionist view of the tariff, it seems no more than fair than an opportunity should be given to the students to form an impartial judgment on a question of such vast importance to American citizens. It seems to us that other colleges would do well to follow the example set by Yale in this respect...
...these criticisms doubtless have a certain amount of justice in them, but why all this needless extravagance? The exchange editor of the college paper seems to lack good judgment, to be immoderate in all that he does, giving either elaborate praise or uncalled for censure. He should, however, remember that extravagance, whether in praise or censure, defeats its own ends. In the case of praise the lies are too evident; and in the case of censure the bitterness very naturally meets with resentment...