Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Springfield Republican passes bitter judgment upon Life, which it says was started by "graduates of the Harvard Lampoon." "The Lampoon was smart, for college boys, but Life is not smart at all, and has no good reason for being," is its stern decree...
These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...
...interesting, and he who can attend it for years without sometimes being touched by it and moved to better living, must be a very insensible and earth-bound person. Twice within a few years the college faculty has represented to the corporation that attendance at prayers ought, in their judgment, to be made voluntary, but the corporation has declined to take action upon the subject. In the autumn of 1881 a motion made in the board of overseers that the statutes ought to be altered so that attendance at prayers might be voluntary was rejected by a large majority...
College editors are not only selected to write editorials. One of the main qualifications of a good editor is good judgment. He must be able to tell which article is worthy of being printed in his paper and which one is not. When a college paper prints an article, it is taken for granted that the editors thought the article a perfectly proper and legitimate article for their columns; otherwise they should not have accepted it. No paper should give matter room if the editors think it improper. The Advocate's position is that a contributed article is not necessarily...
...anything as a student will not be hindered by a reasonable devotion to athletic sports, but, on the contrary, will be helped. He will not only be rendered stronger and healthier by his exercise, but he will be trained instinctively in qualities of promptitude of decision, impartiality of judgment, and readiness of action that will not only help him as a student, but be invaluable to him in after life. Students who are mentally dull do not gravitate to the athletic sports, or, if they do, are rejected there. Some time ago there was a young man, a member...