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...Spirit of the Times of April 10 under the heading of "Physician Heal Thyself" quotes from a recent editorial in the CRIMSON on the loose manner in which our athletics are reported in the outside press, and comments as follows: "And yet this apostle of accuracy and judgment continues to prattle about the Mott Haven team,' "the Mott Haven Cup,' 'going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate...
...city press. That their complaints are, with few exceptions, well founded is too true, but that no such complaints should be well founded is also true. There are at least two things which correspondents for the city papers should cultivate. One of these things is accuracy; the other is judgment, or good taste. We are sorry to say that in some cases both of these virtues have been lacking...
...since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...
...questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate, and of forming either an acquired opinion, or original judgment on them. These views may be erroneous and may be discarded by those who hold them; but they do not stand for nothing. They represent reading in live questions and practical thinking upon them. But this is not all that is accomplished. Practice in expressing views, whether they are erroneous...
...that many of the men best prepared in the subject of the examination do not necessarily take the highest places. The weight of a man's intellect, while it is of great value and importance, the amount of what he knows, often avails little against science. Knowledge and good judgment unfortunately do not always go together, and students at college often need advice as well as instruction...