Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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While not wishing in any way to defend the unfortunate lack of judgment in question, I do want to appeal to the student body to take a fair view of the track team management as a whole,-to consider the wonderful development of new material that has rewarded the efforts of Captain Dodge, Coach Lathrop and Coach Quinn, during this winter, and to point out how much has been already accomplished towards winning the nine-year cup from Yale this spring...
...that ever represented Harvard, met defeat at the hands of a Yale team, simply because the fact was blindly ignored that a good runner out of condition is not so efficient as a less able one who is physically fit. Coach Lothrop was directly responsible for an error in judgment, Captain Dodge indirectly so, because he was not on hand to oversee the team. The material was there, but the foresight and headwork were lacking. In this respect Yale was superior, and we do not wish to belittle her victory. But when defeat has come as the result...
...part in the everyday duties of the average citizen. At present it is impossible for intelligent men to take an intelligent part in the duties of citizenship, because city records are so kept that they either tell falsehoods or only a small part of the truth necessary to intelligent judgment. If the presidents of the colleges above mentioned were to be sent to Boston to serve as the small commission which President Eliot urges to reform municipal government in the United States, they could not possibly be intelligent about the needs of Boston or do the intelligent thing for Boston...
...human will in two phases, its early condition of negative obedience, and its later phase of positive service. In the school of obedience we get the training for out later period of service. But this obedience must not be mere acquiescence, but whole-souled acceptance of the judgment of another. In later life this sort of obedience merges insensibly into the power of command...
...recognition of his ambitions and efforts, only after death to have his plans utilized and his greatness appreciated. And what is this goal toward which nations, no less than individuals, are striving? We cannot say definitely what it is; but we can say that it is neither an unending judgment, nor an unending psalm of praise...