Word: tactfulness
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...condescending meddling, is wrong, as the men who did work of this sort last year will testify. There are man-sized jobs waiting for men to take them, in this field. Social service as conducted by Phillips Brooks House is not play, but earnest work, replete with opportunities for tact and executive ability, and full of real problems...
...this to sow the seeds of class hatred, talking about the existence of an industrial monarchy in place of a political despotism. Then perhaps the foreigner strikes against his starvation wages, as he did in Lawrence where the average man's wage was $9 a week. Instead of tact and reason, clubs were used by the police in the Lawrence trouble and naturally this only intensified the feeling. The labor leaders tell their men that the troops, sent to protect "life, liberty and property," are protecting property alone; and the men, used to a centralized police in their native lands...
...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...