Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Sweetser played a hard smashing game, taking the first two sets with the scores of 8-6 and 6-3. In the third set, when he seemed to have the match well within his grasp, he made several costly double faults and drove several balls out, Dana taking the set, 6-4. The last set was very evenly matched, standing seven all when play was stopped...
...secret practice of the University football squad yesterday was very light, attention was given to details and there was no scrimmage. The work was very encouraging for all the players seemed to grasp what was told them more quickly than usual. Leslie, McKay, and Corbett were not dressed for play, but P. D. Smith was given a little work...
...department of human thought, ought to be wholly a sealed book to an educated man. It has been truly said that few men are capable of learning a new subject after the period of youth has passed, and hence the graduate ought to be so equipped that he can grasp effectively any problem with which his duties or his interest may impel him to deal. An undergraduate, addicted mainly to the classics recently spoke to his adviser in an apologetic tone of having elected a course in natural science, which he feared was narrowing. Such a state of mind...
...small number of electives in certain subjects, as a condition for entering a graduate professional school, is not inconsistent with a liberal education. But I will acknowledge a prejudice that for a man who is destined to reach the top of his profession a broad education, and a firm grasp of some subject lying outside of his vocation, is a vast advantage; and we must not forget that in substantially confining the professional schools at Harvard to college graduates we are aiming at the higher strata in the professions...
...subject, and hardly able to conceive of one individual who apparently knows a good deal about everything in this world. On municipal government he is recognized everywhere as an authority, and on the other great questions of the world his ideas always carry great weight. The mind which can grasp these matters has been used with equal force on questions of University life. We have often heard his views on athletics, the dormitory problem, three-year graduation and other subjects of interest of Harvard men, and although we have sometimes disagreed with his ideas, we have always been glad...