Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hodges. The annual report of President Eliot was received and referred to the committee on reports and resolutions. The report of the committee on the library was also presented and referred to the same committee. The following resolution was presented and laid on the table: That in the judgment of this board it is desirable that a Peabody professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology be established in the university...
...must give it more than passing notice. The writer says: "A movement for exchanging professors in American colleges has recently been set on foot. Much would undoubtedly be gained by such an arrangement. Not only would the students, in a far greater degree than now, be accustomed to independent judgment; but their views on any subject would be broadened and their tolerance of other people's opinions would be increased by listening to lectures by different men of varying opinions." The exchange of professors, however, the writer concludes, is impracticable. "A constant change" he says, "might impede or even prevent...
...this time, as to feel that the civil service reform is a moral cause; one, therefore, which demands of every youth his support, and concerning which there cannot be two sides in the thoughts and feelings of enlightened rational and moral men. There may be, of course, difference of judgment in regard to specific measures; but there can be no difference among right-minded men in regard to the essential principles on which the cause rests...
...sine qua non is only literary excellence. If those who are dissatisfied with the dark stamp of the contents of the Monthly, will express more hopeful views in an attractive form, and with the requisite literary merit, we feel sure their productions will meet with an impartial judgment...
...argument for dress, more hereafter. That concerning the "speech" appears to our provincial judgment both a novel and unwarranted assumption. True, we are not a nation of jeunes premiers, but there have been musical voices in our land and history. The voices of Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, proclaiming the sovereignty of simple manhood had a sweetness and musical cadence which still makes melody upon our People's lips. The tones of these men are the models after which our accents are framed, and their music, I take it, needs not the tawdry finery of affectation...