Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...trees a foot in diamter from the terraces and stairway for several hours. At the risk of a dangerous cave-in he climbed to the top of the temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind persist in believing...
...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...