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...superficially administered. (1) The ministers could not give their whole time to legislation. (a) They must give careful attention to keeping their majority in the House (Sedgwick, p. 423). (b) Their administrative duties take time and attention. (2) They would not be the best to legislate. (a) Parliamentary tact and oratorical ability rather than administrative fitness becomes the ground for the choice of ministers. (x) Such men must be chosen as ministers who can best carry Parliament with them...
...Governor Russell's lot. Every other officer in the state government, with one unimportant exception, was a member of the opposing party. Governor Russell won because of his personal integrity and devotion to the highest interests of the state. Standing alone in this difficult position, he, by his tact and high character, made friends of his political opponents. In his speeches he spoke not as an orator in the accepted sense of the word, but he showed a command of persuasive and sincere speech, speaking as a man of good sense and strong convictions in a pleasant, manly...
Kentucky, after much indecision, finally declared in favor of the Union. Here Lincoln's tact was sharply contrasted with the overbearing action of the Southern leaders. The result was in fact chiefly due to the President's delicate handling of the matter...
WANTED-A student of ability, tact and, above all, Christian character, to take charge of a boy's physical training class promising good salary. No experience is needed. Y. M. C. A. or St. Paul's man preferred. Address Harold R. Stanley, Holden Chapel...
...German with penetration and tact in matters of literary criticism will own that the principle deficiency of German poetry is in style; that for style, in the highest sense, it shows but little feeling. Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what the peculiar power which lies in style is,- Pindar, Virgil, Dante, Milton. An example of the peculiar effect which these poets produce, you can hardly give from German poetry. Examples enough you can give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language...