Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trials will offer far more in the way of useful preparation than has been provided heretofore. The extra time therefore which must elapse before the team gets down to work need not be wasted. In the second trial ten or twelve minutes will be allowed for each speech. Judgment can thus be passed on ability to deliver a sustained argument, skillfully massed, and showing some grasp of the subject. Enough men will then be kept to carry out, with special reference to rebuttal, a set debate as a final test...
...vacancies in the grounds. The opportunity for a man to build a creditable monument would be plainly apparent and would attract a donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
...writing than anything else, I count newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences written as appears in our daily press...
Meanwhile, as a preliminary step, we would suggest that the matter be brought, at the earliest practicable moment, before the Corporation of the University, with a request that it give the project serious consideration; and if, in the judgment of its members, it is expedient, that they will assign a suitable site for the building of the proposed club within the limits of the College Yard, if possible, in case the necessary funds for its construction should within a reasonable time be forthcoming...
...place of meeting. The resolutions offered were carried unanimously and wholly without opposition, though discussion was invited. Moreover the manner in which the speeches were received, indicated that the conclusions reached were not the result of a passing wave of enthusiasm, but rather of careful consideration. Deliberate judgment has been greatly aided by the fact that the matter has been so long before the college public, and has been so widely discussed during the past four months...