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...Evening up the decision" is a phrase used in baseball when the umpire makes a bad judgment on a certain play, and, shortly afterward, realizing his error, gives an equally bad decision on a close play for the opposing team. A week or so ago President Eliot saw fit to criticize the United States Military Academy at West Point, and this week feeling perhaps that he should have begun at home accuses the Harvard students of being "Woozy." The CRIMSON and the University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever...
...satisfied himself that the judges were in no position to judge the debate. Then he, a former student of the University of Washington, takes it upon himself to express his infallible judgment that "Washington got a raw deal." Is Mr. Palmer consistent...
...Washington should have won. Popular opinion may be a capable judge at an oratorical contest, but hardly at a debate. At a debate, it is not so much how it is said, but what is said. This too often escapes the notice of the audience, which frequently renders its judgment upon impression rather than on the respective merits...
...done much toward making Yale the institution that it is today. Born and educated among traditions of classical culture, President Hadley has maintained those ideals while liberalizing education with a broad vision and clear insight into modern problems. An economic theorist by profession his keen judgment has been repeatedly sought and utilized by practical business...
...university is the laboratory of truth. It is an experimental station. He who would learn in this laboratory the eternal immutable laws of truth, must adopt as his criterion the scientific perspective of absolute, unbiased, suspended, critical judgment. His mind must not be befogged by the haze of prejudgments. He must be moderate and temperate. He must be tenacious, upholding old truths. He must be a radical as well as a conservative in the true meaning of these words. As a radical he must dig into the roots of the subject. As a conservative he must conserve and preserve...