Word: trait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
...Allport adocates a questionnaire for each trait of a man's personality, covering his "ascendance" or force or personality, his "drive," his "expansion...
...optimism and generosity where others of his age had erred in pessimism and bitterness. Still, Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull observer, but in the main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship. He has yet to learn the important place pure scholarship holds in the general plan of things. He is sure to learn this in time. If he finds in the scholar the man he is looking for, the scholar can lead him anywhere...
...secret of Dr. Eliot's quality of leadership, however, lies in his dominant trait and wonderful gift of initiative. It is the positive definitely constructive mind that leads, and not the merely receptive, the merely critical, nor even the vaguely creative, however inspired by genius. It is the mind that sees something to be done not done before, and the way or various available ways to the accomplishing of the new thing. And in Dr. Eliot's hands mere facts, mere statistics, the vast fruits of his own and others' research, do not remain sheer knowledge, but are utilized...
...many readers the most curiously interesting chapter will be the first, in which we read the history of Holden Chapel. Here again a persistent Harvard trait is illustrated, the practical adaptation of material means to immediate ideal ends. Built on a generous scale for religious purposes within one generation, and during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor...