Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...
...effects of a conference whose grasp has the octopus-like extension of the Big Ten can have only a retarding action on the present movement in the larger eastern colleges, as typified by President Hopkins' proposal to the Dartmouth association and by the strong undergraduate feeling against commercialization of the game. Conference upholders will deny this vehemently, but , both benefits and evils alike, even they must admit that the Daily errs in its supposition that selection of an outside man to govern the refereeing in this one game is in any way an indication of a conference spirit. The plan...
...wholly inexplicable are hesitant to include this cataclysmic but rather natural event in the category of 'acts of God.' The conception of a God who acts through the orderly operation of laws rather than by arbitrary acts of will in defiance of them is still hard to grasp. One does not have to be a materialist to believe that the reason for the flood in the bottom lands is not that God is angry with Arkansas and Louisiana but that there ir too much water in the river to run off through the normal channel...
...able to see the shadows of their future works . . . the secret--that of Leonardo and that of Bonaparte, like that which the highest intelligence once possessed--resides and can only reside in the relations which they find--which they are forced to find--between things of which we cannot grasp the law of continuity . . . Their supreme achievement, the one which the world admires, was only a simple matter, like comparing two lengths...
...direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club to the possibilities which are within its grasp. Whatever or whoever is to blame for the decline of this body, there is no doubt but that it needs renovation. If the students of the University are culpable, one can merely comment on the degradation of the drama which has been Harvard's share. On the other hand...