Word: discernibly
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...joke" department of the Journal. Its anecdotes, puns, poems, "miscellany, " all occasionally rabelaisian, disclose one of a doctor's interests whIch his patients rarely discern...
...connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization...
...haze of legal phraseology and latinized please which hung over the Superior Criminal Court of East Cambridge yesterday the average uninformed layman can discern three points: one, the court's decision, is a fact and therefore serious; the second is an analogy and consequently a bit whimsical; the third might be called subtle and is certainly rich in allusions...
...years Harvard University has grown and prospered under your presidency. You brought to your high office ripe experience of public service, of teaching, of scholarship, and above all a clear vision of what this University may accomplish in leading its students to love learning, and the wisdom to discern the way. Under your leadership, scholarly attainment has become more attractive to young men here than ever before; and every part of the University has profited thereby. From the College now go each year into our graduate schools large groups of young men who have already distinguished themselves as scholars. They...
...Education consists of two parts presented with equal respect as representing equally valid viewpoints. The one part is written by a faculty member; the other by a student Readers will, of course, value one above the other if they find them conflicting. Indeed, no great insight is required to discern what subjects the one or the other will prove the more authoritative. But it is likely to be discovered that teacher and student concur and supplement more often than they conflict...