Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...field the team showed up well except in the last three innings, when all of the six errors were made. The batting was decidedly weak, only four men hitting safely. In the first two innings the batting and base-running showed vigor and good judgment but the lead of six runs seemed to take all life and snap out of the play...
...positions in the field are more uncertain and will depend in a large measure on the batting. Loughlin shows far more judgment and does better fielding work than any of the others, though his throwing is rather weak. In batting he fails to pick the ball cleanly off the bat. Jaynes lacks experience and is weak in flies that come over his head, but he is improving in batting. Christenson's work, though fair, needs activity and life. Stewart is another one of the men who are constantly improving as they gain more experience. His work on the bases...
...greatest of English letter writers. This and the fact that hitherto his letters have been accessable only in Mr. Gosse's inaccurate edition of Gray's complete works would be excuse enough for any volume of selections. But Mr. Rideout has chosen so wisely, has used such good judgment in picking out those letters which are most interesting and valuable, and which enable the reader to form the truest conception of Gray and his environment that the volume has an extra claim to the welcome of the public. The introduction--but twenty pages long--gives all the facts necessary...
...grasp of these subjects, and a hold upon the living world, which no amount of reading could have supplied. It had cultivated his powers of thinking and of presenting his thoughts in a clear, orderly, and convincing manner, and had exercised and developed his natural gifts--coolness of judgment, breadth of view, and temperance in expression...
...then of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and as chairman of important committees. Though in private he expressed regret that administrative duties took so much time and strength from his work as professor, he gave himself to them devotedly, and brought to them the same thoroughness, soundness of judgment, and disinterestedness that distinguished his instruction and his writings. In the conduct of administrative business he was ready to assume responsibility; in this way, and by the careful preparation of the matter in hand, he saved his associates many hours of fatiguing labor...