Word: tact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throwing and coercion reveal a laudable fighting spirit, but unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...
...Poincare's equivocal tact in the matter of stage morals...
...tact, his understanding and sympathy, and his unfailing cordiality, Mr. Allen has succeeded in making the University better understood, both inside the Yard and out. The fact that the traditional hostility to Harvard has steadily diminished within the last college generation can be attributed directly to his efforts...
...these few reservations are felt only when reading the play. When acted, they all vanish in the grace of the witty, tender dialogue, which is written with perfect tact, without the least vulgarity or bad taste, and which succeeds in giving to everything, no matter how far-fetched, the illusion of reality...
...CRIMSON wishes to take this opportunity to express its appreciation for the action which the Governing Boards of the University have taken in the matter of posthumous degrees for honorable service in the war. The University has shown admirable tact in adding to her roll of graduates these twenty-eight men who did not complete their college courses. Harvard is honored in numbering them among her sons. They have fought for her ideals and gladly given up their lives. This reward, slight though it is, will carry their memory down to future generations of Harvard...