Word: acumen
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...evidence. Knowing well the nature of all investigation, his views were always in a plastic state. Whatever conclusions he reached were only working hypotheses to be altered by the next discovery. He had also an infinite patience with even the errors of those who wished to learn, and great acumen in discovering the exact misconception that caused the error. His style of exposition was con cise and clear, with a certain quaintness proceeding from a delicate sense of humor so subtle as hardly to be recognized except by his intimate friends. He added to these qualities a remarkable saneness...
...from the perfect style the ladies of Athens commanded in their letters, that attic prose learnt its brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells...
...handling and therefore well balanced in treatment. It is almost impossible to criticize such a writer as Herrick by the methods which ordinarily obtain in literary criticism. There is one line, "maids who sang his songs so sweetly that Herrick himself wondered at their melody," which evidences good critical acumen, for Mr. Palmer throughout his paper recognizes the immense poetical significance of simplicity, and in no way could the simplicity of such a part be more conclusively proved than by the poets own surprise at the melody of his verse. The "Mood of an Autumn Day," by Mr. Berenson...
...library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker...
...suppose some few are compelled to remain in Cambridge, and seek mental strength from the library, and physical satisfaction from the Christmas dinner at Memorial. For the Jester and our associate the Advocate, we would wish all the blessings of the season and renewed strength of wit and literary acumen. We rejoice in the thought that the faculty can now have a few days in which to repair their wasted energies and gird themselves for the semis. We hope that the torture they are about to inflict will not detract from the pleasures of Christmas time. To all we would...