Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able to fulfil it, to keep these lines of psychical and aesthetic distinction more or less clearly in view; to grasp as well as I could and to illustrate such laws of criticism as seemed to me perennial in their application, and to leave aside as rubbish that dead leafage of deciduous facts which is swept rustling to and fro in the avenues of thought by the shifting breath of opinion...
Maynard Ladd '94, said that the true aim of the student was to obtain, not high marks or an accumulation of facts, but an ability to grasp and wrestle successfully with the problems of life. The liberal education on made a liberal man. The different college activities were worth as serious support as the studies themselves...
...interest which Mr. Hayes has aroused in these readings. Those who have out heard him are, however, strongly urged to take advantage of this last opportunity. Mr. Hayes has shown himself well skilled in the art of making characters appear in living forms, and one cannot fail to grasp a clearer idea of the types of Shakespear's men and women after listening to his readings...
...elegant in style, good in sentiment and matter or forcible in diction. Moreover, humor is born not made in a writer and the efforts here to be humorous injure the high tone that the Advocate editorials have hitherto had. In several instances there is evidence of lack of grasp of the subject, a flippancy of tone that is unbecoming and a general character foreign to good advocate editorials. It were best for the writers to recognize that the fault they find with the plays of the Theatre of Arts and Letters - that the authors "thought to write a play offhand...
...conception of the truth, and God is constantly impressing us with new ideas of it, we should feel that the time of our visitation is come. It is a dreadful thing to see the failure of a young life. We can forgive the child who does not grasp his opportunities; but we can not pardon the youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure is terrible. May God, looking down...