Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hold no brief for Colonel Roosevelt, and he needs no encomium from my pen. The American people upon various occasions have passed judgment upon his work in no uncertain way. No living American is held in such honor and affection as he. Furthermore, no Harvard man, whatever is his attitude politically toward Mr. Roosevelt and the policies he so ably advocates, can be unaware of the lustre he has brought upon his Alma Mater. His brilliant achievements, his versatile scholarship, his distinguished and undeniable service to his country, reflect no small honor upon the College where he received his training...
...present century." As we watch the derricks pulling down the walls of this intellectual Bastile we wonder in a somewhat patronizing air at President Quincy's quaint taste and short-sighted expectations. Let us forget his taste, and think about his short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern attitude towards books in education. Certainly many of us have not stopped to see our own attitude. We are simply conscious that things have changed, and we assume that they have changed for the better...
...course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series of lectures on a contemporary problem, he is surely wiser to choose the latter. But wiser still is the man who, realizing that his own judgment as to the needs of the next century are not infallible, gives his gifts subject only to the careful distribution of those who are best fitted to know the most pressing need as it arises, and to give that need only its proportionate share of funds. Too often a restricted gift...
Gardner's Judgment Excellent...
...Socialist, were it not for an obstinate and eternal American fondness for and belief in individualism; the right of men to combine in various groups; the confidence that capital can be curbed and skilled management utilized without giving up the individual conscience and will to the collective judgment of a body of representatives--for that is what present Socialism means,-- and future Socialism can hardly escape from these underlying ideas...