Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good thing for the country. It can be, for what college men can do to help reform has been shown in Wisconsin and in many other states. It should be, for at this time the country is passing through a crisis in its political development that calls for tact and intelligence...
...praised for his admirable work with the Pierian Sodality. His beat is clear and firm, his readings of the several works presented were scholarly, poetic, and forceful by turns. He inspires his men to be classic, romantic and ultra-modern as the occasion demands, and his training and resourceful tact have created a standard for the Pierian which is not only extremely creditable in its present accomplishment, but a basis for future striving
...nearly ten years Mr. J. D. Greene has held important positions in the administrative departments of the University. His work has required a great deal of tact and patience and knowledge of the most varied sort. We feel that we express the feeling of the University in saying that he has done his work in a most thoroughly efficient manner...
...entirely to the subject of anticipating a medical career, while in the undergraduate department of the University. Such anticipation and elementary study in consequence have become very essential since the changes made in the study and practice of medicine during the last 25 years. For not only qualities of tact, patience, and skill are needed in this profession, but a good general knowledge of many subjects to insure the greatest efficiency...
...strongest appeal of the medical profession to a virile man is the opportunity which it offers him of bringing into play every talent, mental or muscular, which he possesses. A keen eye, a sharp ear, ability in expression, tact, sympathy with all sorts of people, all come into play. The doctor as well as the lawyer must know how to cross-examine; like the translator he must know how to interpret; like the teacher he must know how to expound and explain. Every talent is of use, and a little fault like faintness at the sight of blood, which...