Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...America, with Harvard in the lead, was gradually reaching a position where she could compete with such nations as England. Germany, and France in the matter of colleges. Professor Palmer followed. He claimed that the greatest opportunities were offered to a student entering Harvard. His success depended on his judgment and himself generally, as a matter of course, but Harvard was aiming more than any other college in America to discipline the character of her students. Harvard did not want to see her students go out into the world undecided what to do. She did not want to make their...
...other rules are similar to ours, excepting those which must necessarily be different on account of the number of boats entered, etc. The rules as a whole show judgment on the part of the framers, as nearly all the essential points are carefully covered...
...Chase, to make a likeness of Ex-President Hayes for Memorial Hall, and another, J. W. Alexander, to give the likeness of Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Medical School. Both portraits are subjected to violent criticism in a number of papers. The Journal thinks the Holmes portrait a judgment on the committee that could not find a better painter nearer home; and the Gazette is even more wrathful. "The muddiness, the ugliness, and the fantastic charlatanism of the picture," it cries, "leave the spectator in doubt whether to be more exasperated at the impertinence or the recklessness of the artist...
...pupil, which render a college course so burdensome to men of moderate means, the sons of such men will be enabled, either by their own exertions or the support of their parents, to obtain at a cost within their reach a good practical education, as good, in my judgment, as anywhere else, to fit them for the business of life...
...conceal the real weight of the duty from those who are unacquainted with the values of the dutiable articles. The ad valorem duties are theoretically more equal and just, but yet the tendency of all countries is to drop them. The faults found are: The difficulty of correct judgment by custom officers; the danger of fraud in concealing the true value; the competition of different ports in order to obtain more trade by appraising he goods lower. In this country, the lecturer explained, the ad valorem duties was the system sought by free traders in preference to specific duties...