Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...debut of a candidate who promises well. The playing of Robinson was not a surprice to those who have watched his work throughout the last week, and many had expected him to drive the team with a firm grip, as he did. He chose his plays with a clever judgment, caught every punt that came to him, and successfully ran back the ball. The man who plays quarterback against Princeton and Yale may well be Robinson...
...obvious objection offered in opposition to the policy of choosing a vocation early, however, is the possibility--yes, even the probability--of an erroneous or misguided judgment, followed perhaps by the disastrous consequences of failure or of mere mediocrity in after life. In the face of that rebuttal there is, nevertheless, a justification for choosing a life-work as soon as possible--a justification which the Advocate scribe might well have remarked...
...Neither Princeton nor Harvard would have protested these players; and, so far as Princeton and Harvard were concerned. Yale was free to use her own judgment...
Professor Perry spoke of "Richard Henry Dana as a Man of Letters." "The popular impression of Richard Henry Dana is that he was a man of one book, 'Two Years Before the Mast.' Such impressions are not always infallible, and yet the offhand, instinctive judgment upon which they rest is usually right enough for all practical purposes. In Dana's case the popular verdict is not likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson...
...University, I can only say that the University, I can only say that the University, not being yet in action, nor the Hotels for boarding houses in readiness which will be at their disposal, no style of dieting has been agreed on; but if I may form a judgment from the conversation we have had on the subject. I think something like the following course will meet their approbation. For breakfast: wheat or corn bread, at the choice of each particular, with butter, and milk, or Coffee-au-lait, at the choice of each. No meat. For dinner. A soup...