Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...election to the board is by competition, those who feel interested in an election must manifest their interest in contributions. There is good literary ability in the freshman class, and more than one member has already shown marked capability. But that we may be able to make a mature judgment and not fill the vacancy on the board too prematurely, we again call for a more extended interest among the freshmen...
...oration shall be delivered in Latin. It sounds as if it had been taken from some faculty report of half a century ago. Yet we think that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life, and be in harmony with the spirit...
...better, than last year. Taking it for granted that Harvard will present her strongest crew, Yale will, I think, have as reasonable a chance as she did last year. To call Yale's chances poor would be an opinion of hopes and fears, and not good judgment on what the crew have done and are doing...
...editors of the Advocate give reasons why, in their opinion, the task of publishing the literary work of the college should devolve upon them, rather than upon the proposed Literary Monthly. Until the evidence is all in, and the matter has been fully discussed, we must reserve our judgment on the relative merits of the two schemes...
Under the old arrangement it was thought rather smart to get ahead of the faculty, and there was often much bitterness manifested. Under the jury system there is little chance for such a feeling to display itself, and the students are more willing to submit to the judgment of the jury than they formerly were to bow to the will of the faculty, as they no longer feel that they are being condemned by unfriendly, or at least unsym pathetic persons...