Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice-president of a New York City bank he states that no college man succeeds in business who would not have succeeded anyway. What is more, a course in Liberal Arts may even dull the business acumen and clog the mind with things not needed. But that is as it should be according to Mr. Emerson, for college trains not for life but for living. The four "wasted" years should not pack the mind with encyclopedic facts or change the brain into an animated Spanish dictionary. Instead they should serve to pile up a store, a credit account of satisfaction...
Most fables are founded on a perversion of fact. Senor Alvarotez, with great acumen, has been at work reconstructing this myth in the light of facts. On the will of the tower hung a small pla ue; its words, when deciphered accordign to the key furnished by the Bingham Expedition, read as follows: "Rising Bell. To be rung each morning at the rising of the sun". Then followed the date, in our calendar 1236 A. D. A minute examination of the chamber brought to light a collection of cracked and faded parchments, apparently of an official nature. The most interesting...
...reader look eagerly forward to the continuation in a subsequent number. Curiously enough, one of the books reviewed, "Peter Kindred,' by Robert Nathan, takes up the very theme of the application, after graduation, of principles learned at Harvard. In the other review, Mr. Damon discusses with admirable critical acumen and clarity Amy Lowell's "Pictures of the Floating World...