Word: tactfulness
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...ballads which have existed orally during so many years : but the number of these is on the wane. Many of the old songs are irrevocably lost; but it is not too late with diligence and care to accomplish much. Correctness, morever, is essential; and there is great demand for tact and patience. Any attempts at alteration will render a ballad utterly worthless for all critical purposes : the literary merit is not a question at issue. Note, too, that the burden or refrain should always be retained. To conclude, the enterprise calls for painstaking inquiry on the part of those...
...seek that peculiar kind of improvement which, for want of a better name, is called "general culture." Great as the advantage is of listening to the speeches of four well-prepared disputants, it is small in comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study. To deliver just opinions not only on the merits of the disputants, but also on their defects, without regard to the persons criticised, is a task few can accomplish with success. The instructor in English 6 is one of these...
...burning thoughts of mankind. It is the art which every Harvard man would do well to cultivate, if he wish to distinguish himself and perhaps become even an editor of a College paper. But to make good verses - that is, good Harvard verses - requires considerable skill and tact; not genius, nothing so vulgar and trivial as genius...
...read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack of charity to instructors...
...last Monday's issue of the Echo appeared an exceedingly unjust letter on Freshman Mathematics signed J. C., 81, whose mathematical attainments are superior, I hope, to his logical. There may be a disparity in the tact of impartation between the tutors alluded to, but that does not warrant the statements or conclusions of J. C., '81. If a student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college...