Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your duty to protect the accused from unjust or unfounded charges on the one hand and to protect the nation on the other. You shall present only those persons who have, in your judgment, committed an offense against the United States Government...
...future students the Chairman should have opportunity to raise the standards of admission as he feels such changes necessary. He well may take much of the responsibility in the task of selecting desirable men for the new scholarships proposed by President Conant. This is something which calls for keen judgment and ability to analyze high school men which the Chairman must certainly possess. Possible revision of the College Boards and their use in determining the fitness of men to enter college is another problem that the Chairman must be concerned with in the near future...
...their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles out the window, that have been averted by timely and sympathetic proctorial intervention looms large in Freshman annals. Qualities of judgment, tact, and initiative are all prime requisites for the position, and the new list of new men gives promise that the latter will perform their functions creditably...
...sinking of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday afternoon provokes many, upon hasty judgment, into scathing condemnation of steamship companies, captains, and speedy runs, but a careful study of the facts already known and those that will be brought out in the Lighthouse Service Investigation will show the weakness of snap judgments. Granted that the "Olympic" was in the wrong according to decisions of Admiralty Courts which hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances...
Contrary to all the confident expectations and fond hopes of General Nigh Phonnoforque, this demonstration did not go to impress the Great Man with the loyalty, fastidiousness, and devotion of his lieutenant, but rather served only to make him feel that his own judgment was not worth two onions, and that a subordinate might all too easily and without any just cause, overstep his duties and rights...