Word: tactfulness
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Biography is a form of literature which requires sympathy, good judgment, impartiality, and tact. The last-named is particularly necessary when the subject of the biography is still living; biographers throughout history have caused pain, done injustice, and made fools of themselves through too much haste in publishing their work, or too little taste in the writing of it. Mr. Tumulty's recent publication, while not strictly a biography, must be placed in that class as it attempts to portray the character of ex-President Wilson through the narration of various events in his career. It is unfortunate that...
...transfer from a college where it would be inviting next to murder to sit in the cheering section and cheer for the other side, this business seems very strange. Nobody is being condemned for cheering for the other side; far from it. But to show so little tact and good taste as to sit in the Harvard cheering section and cheer for the other side, is a thing that one would place above the average person with a particle of grey matter in his head. The people who do this know very well that they could not get away with...
...specific values newspaper photography is sure to develop speed if thought and action, acquaintance with interesting situations and important men, and extreme keenness of tact and of mind. When you have to photograph a man who doesn't want to be photographed you have to make a snap judgment and than act and act quickly. In your work all the interesting situations and all the important people of the community. As for keenness of mind and cleverness. It is one of the first requisites of a successful photographer, For example we once had a man here who took pictures...
...favor of tolerating a hang first and try afterwards "policy", the correspondent has read into the CRIMSON editorial a meaning which a careful scrutiny does not reveal. "A renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress the increasing danger" does not necessarily mean "Palmer" methods. A reasonable amount of restraint, tact, and justice in handling the present labor situation is a far better preventive of more "red plots" than methods of unbridled force...
...proof of exquisite editorial tact that C. J. Schern Jr. should be the next man to scratch his head and wonder "Why the Professor Leaves his Holly Wreaths in the Window until they Wither." It is proof of even more exquisite tact that Mr. Schern refrains from any solution of the enigma. He tells us why a professor buckles up his overshoes; but he does not tell us why "It has been a custom from time immemorial to hang in--to hang in their win--." It were better...