Word: judgments
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...studies, and substituted for the old prescribed course. The three vacancies in the corps of instructors were filled by the selection of young and active men, well qualified for their positions. A full account of all the changes was made public, and the result awaited with interest. Happily the judgment of the "powers that be" was not erroneous, the new class proving large in number and composed of good material. The new instructors are R. B. Richardson, Yale, '69, professor of the Greek language and literature; C. F. Richardson, Dartmouth, '71, professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature...
...subjects for the second Senior Forensic have been announced as follows : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...system are ably presented and urged; in much, in very much, his criticisms are just and unanswerable; but they frequently go too far. No better statement of all the charges against college secret societies from the standpoint of the student could be made. No more misleading and partial judgment on the question could be given. The many and imperative reasons for the existence of these societies are half unanswered, half ignored. Our college societies supply an undoubted social want in student life. In this - in principle - they are perfectly justifiable and commendable. Many criticisms, however, are just. Much in college...
...supplement we publish the full official statement of Harvard's position in the difficulty with Columbia. We present below the complete statement of Columbia's side of the affair, as contained in the Acta Columbiana. By comparing the two our readers, perhaps, can form a fair and independent judgment on the whole matter. The Acta says...
Justice Fry of London yesterday gave judgment in the case of the Union Telephone Company vs. Walker, an action to restrain the defendant from infringing on the patent for Edison's transmitter and Bell's receiver. The former point was decided against, and the latter in favor of, the plaintiff...