Word: judgments
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...begin to put much emphasis on Mr. Morrow, until as a successful lawyer he was invited into another field, to become a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. To be sure, in a short time Massachusetts papers began referring to "Governor Coolidge," but Mr. Morrow had justified the judgment of his classmates so far as headlines were concerned, for the Morgan "member of the Military Board of Allied Supply who received the Distinguished Service medal for his unostentatious service abro I" was more interesting to the country than an obscure governor...
...said that this statement was based on his personal opinion. He testified that in his opinion there were unmistakable danger signs in the air, that Commander Lansdowne made an error in judgment in not steering around the storm, and that the destruction of the ship was caused by the bursting of gas cells because a number of safety valves had been removed (all points that the survivors of the disaster deny). Lieutenant Rosendahl, one of the survivors, questioned...
...longer may a Harvard man be accused of indifference--he is most likely unusually fond of children, and his fondness has doubtlessly been inspired by observing the Cambridge Police. Boston society has, of course, contributed to make the Harvard man a drunkard--a position which requires judgment and no small capacity for uniting various raw materials. Harvard's sense of proportion and blance is amply illustrated by Professor Moss' assumption that the Harvard graduate who becomes a caretaker is probably a moron...
...experiment, the debaters will try community criticism; that is, as each man finishes speaking, criticism of his work is furnshed by the rest of the squad. In this way, criticism will be more varied, and the speaking of the team will not be moulded entirely on the judgment...
...amount of brilliancy in the practical rough-and tumble of life will ever make up for clear, wel-ordered thinking upon which to base sane judgment. No amount of instinct, flair or wisdom can ever take the place of intensive thought and study. And this is one of the gifts that scholarship confers, the habit of painstaking, analytical, thorough investigation of every problem that arises in life, the habit of clear thinking...