Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eightieth birthday, but I was instinctively putting it off some years longer, and it needed your reminder to make me realize that it fell next month. Whatever his age, there was something in the early maturity of his power which keeps him enduringly young; the keen insight, the critical acumen, the generous sympathy, remain undimmed, unblunted, unchilled...
...settling upon a head for three or five years there is no reason why Harvard should not select the best man available among her graduates, a man who has made success in other athletic lines or in football, and a man who has the age and the acumen to work with boys and to know boys. This selected head must have the undivided responsibility of the entire football policy, and once selected with care and thought he must have the undivided support of graduates and undergraduates. Harvard wants to try no more experiments...