Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wheat. One clear point is that "cash" wheat has been pretty steadily higher than the nearest "future" since last fall--indicating that buying by those who want the actual wheat, to use or to store away, has been the proximate cause of the rise. Back of this, in the judgment of good students of the market, lies buying by the Governments of England and France, and frantic buying by housewives, enormous in the aggregate, which has forced the millers to unprecedented buying of cash wheat. Back of this are many factors, not the least the alarms spread by the Government...
...before the war came along to lift their attention to loftier things, whether college men were democratic or not. A like subject is little worth the debate that has been put upon it. The question depends on what is meant by democratic. College men are more open to fair judgments of their fellows because they associate with them in a most intimate way. But, like other men, they are subject to the errors of judgment...
...always a refreshing thing to hear a young critic express his criticism in a positive manner. There is entirely too much of the half-hearted, uncertain sort of judgment that says: "It seems to me," "I think," et cetera. Better far to show your colors and come boldly out with "It is," because everyone understands criticism as an expression of little more than personal opinion. The authority of it and the respect we give to it rests on the individual. Mr. Wright, then, who indeed does not hesitate to state his views with perfect assurance in his criticism of "Major...
...sounded often and loudly, that the spirit of Harvard is undemocratic. Without doubt there is some justness in the complaint. And without doubt it is based really on narrowness of judgment. In no place where men have learned to differentiate between man and man and the most primitive tribes have learned that sort of selection--are all beings equally regarded and equally admired by their fellows. In any social scheme where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness...
...election of a captain for the hockey team is one of those events which keeps our judgment clear. We do not know whether the hockey team will exist next winter; we do not know whether many of the men on the team will be here to play, or whether their new captain will be here to lead them. Yet we must plan as though our present preparation for war is but temporary, to be succeeded by the accustomed round of healthier and more happy events...