Word: acumen
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...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...
...month. Certainly the seven poetic contributions of this number are exemplary, in skill at least, of the old standard. Mr. Cabot's "Transcendency" being diabolically clever, is balanced by a conventional but charming bit from Mr. Sedgwick, and their juxtaposition on the same page shows excellent editorial acumen. Turning back a page we find Mr. Rogers' "where fauns with shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music of Song's lisps" is quite delightful provided Mr. McLane has his tongue in his cheek. Otherwise--? Mr. Hoffman's Sonnet, despite...
...Sight Rate of Foreign Exchange," yesterday evening, Mr. John E. Gardin, vice-president of the National City Bank of New York, emphasized the intricate nature of his subject, and the great assistance of a college education in such a career. A business which takes so much continual study and acumen deserves the title of a separate profession. The breadth of a market comprising the whole world, the continual shifting of trade, and the constant necessity of grasping unexpected opportunities, all combine to demand a man of exceptional ability and knowledge...
...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...