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...lives, he eliminates all possibility of pardon or ultimate release. It might be urged that a murderer might very well reform with the passage of time, but in the general run of cases, the risk to the rest of the population which a premature release or an error in judgment would entail, seems to justify at least permanent confinement--where the present penalty is usually death...
...results of such examinations indicate the capacity of the candidate at the time which after all, is the important thing rather than his capacity in the first form or at any other more or less remote period. In any case, the Committee on Admissions will use its own judgment in the end, and the multiplication of tests and evidence, especially if every test must be discounted to correct for all sorts of human variables, can only confuse rather than aid. There is no reason why a single set of satisfactory examinations cannot be devised on which the Committee may solely...
That, in any proposed plan of admission or limitation the Committee on Admission should be allowed to exercise judgment to a certain degree is the conviction of Assistant Professor Bancroft Beatley '15 of the Educational Department, according to an interview given recently to a CRIMSON reporter...
...stated that Liberals will advance the name of Robert E. Speer. Dr. Speer is a conservative. There is no weak-spot in his armor of orthodoxy. He could stand up with the best Fundamentalist before the judgment seats of John Calvin and John Knox. But he is not a Fundamentalist. He believes that Christianity is greater than theology...
...Some judges of great intellectual power, conscious of their integrity and with implicit faith in their own judgment, may think that written opinions are largely unnecessary, but the Bar knows that the best security of good and faithful work is that the judge must state his reasons. And the judge himself knows how often first impressions and even decisions passed in the conference room meet their Waterloo when the judge finds 'they won't write.' The essential test is adequate statement of grounds...