Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still remains to be seen whether the college will approve the marking system; for the present Mid-years are its first great and questionable test. And the verdict will be interesting in more ways than one. It will not only show one ideas of the true measure of knowledge but will also be a sort of gauge of our own modesty. For, when a man finds himself ranked with a class, he naturally looks to see who his companions are. If he thinks he is quite as good a scholar as they are he is rather dissatisfied. It is, moreover...
...verdict will also be a partial judgement of the conference committee, of which the marking system is the sole surviving result, the result of two years thinking by many honorable gentlemen. Shall we ask if it is a worthy result? No, the conference committee is like Caesar's wife above (or at least beyond) suspicion...
...that through all their performance there was still an undercurrent of order which prevented any action that was not ruled by reason. We understand that the owners of whatever property was put on the fire, are to be reimbursed by the class. Surely then let the college render the verdict of justifiable bonfire...
...student members were there to meet them. After Professor Palmer had called the meeting to order, the discussion was opened upon the resolution that those students guilty of cribbing should be tried before the Conference Committee, having right, however, to appeal to the faculty in case of verdict of guilty. There were three distinct lines of thought expressed. A number favored the resolution, feeling that it embodied the best method of acting directly on college opinion; that it would stimulate a healthy sentiment which would blot out cribbing by making it unpopular; and that the students at large when thoroughly...
...judge the character of all from the positively expressed characters of the few, we would agree with some of our staid, well-meaning friends in thinking that "those Harvard boys are the worst lot this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard...