Word: judgments
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...whether some of the arguments advanced in favor of this or that candidate are really expressions of opinion in its true sense. Do the condemnations of one Presidential nominee, or the eulogisms which we hear heaped (or heap ourselves) on his rival, arise in all instances from a mature judgment of both sides of the case? Do we not find ourselves holding opinions to which we are directed by emotional feeling rather than by careful reasoning...
...already being professionalized, particularly those of a business character. Our schools of commerce and finance are preparing men for railroading, insurance and banking, and other lines of mercantile and business activities. Moreover, commercial and manufacturing concerns are reaching out in every direction for able college students of trained judgment and clear vision who, on learning the technique of the particular occupations, may be counted upon for leadership and direction. There is also the official public service, embracing a very large number of reasonably attractive positions, particularly in the consular, foreign trade, engineering, and technical branches. More serious attention...
...vocational guidance is at our door. Perhaps no greater work ever confronted a university than that of frankly and consciously organizing its machinery and methods for developing and molding the rich talent of its students and directing it into those branches of public and private service where sober judgment, trained thinking, moderation and capacity for intelligent leadership are essential. This is a service to the students incidentally and to democracy fundamentally...
...university in any athletic team or crew, except that any University Committee on Eligibility may, subject to the approval of the Committee of the Chairmen,* permit such participation in intercollegiate athletics by men who might technically be debarred under the letter of the rule, but who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility, have not commercialized their athletic ability or offended against the spirit of the foregoing provision...
...another earnest advocate of universal military service, in the last number of The New Republic presents a view which Harvard men will more readily endorse. "Loyalty to one's country," he says, "unless one understands its policy and helps to mould it, is simply a renouncing of one's judgment...