Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undermining the whole structure of President Lowell's worthy innovation, the tutorial system. Roughly the same difficulties are apparent among the tutors as among the advisers, but here they have a far more pernicious and injurious effect. A man can after all reserve the right to his own judgment in accepting or rejecting the counsel of the Freshman adviser, but if he is cursed with an indifferent or incompetent tutor, he misses a serious proportion of the good which the College has to offer him. Limitation not amplification of the number of tutees is a necessary means to insure success...
...superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
...make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass judgment on the relative merits and virtues of those two sorts of thinking...
...Personally he is fond of Franklin Roosevelt, takes this attitude: "I'm the silent partner in the firm of Roosevelt & Garner. The Chief does all the talking for the firm." And while Partner Roosevelt is talking. Partner Garner, as a loyal party-man who has voluntarily suspended his judgment as a statesman, is getting in better backstage political licks for the Administration than any Vice President in modern times...
...Morgan hotly defended TVA, declared the report unfair, insisted everything could be explained. Said he: "The principal difficulty of Government operation of any project is the tendency toward inflexibility of management. . . . We did our best to get around it. ... It apparently boils down to a question of whose judgment shall decide questions on the job-the engineers or the auditors...