Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...original compositions, the Sonata movements of E. Ballantine '07 showed a piano style of unusualy polyphony; the capricious "Apriltide," while trifling, was undeniable pleasing. Clapp's song "The Swimmer" showed the greatest individuality of style, the surest grasp of technique, and greatest power to sustain word...
...desire to get social recognition in college: the writer in passing lifts the veil discreetly from the editorial sanctum. "The Fragment" is vivid and vague. The second of the "Travel Papers of Arminius" is a study of Naples with its dirt and noise and charm--an attempt to grasp the soul of the city, necessarily a partial description, but interesting. The number is rich in poetry. "To a Centaur" is a pleasing fancy. "Apollo Satyros" has genuine lyric grace and sweetness of melody. "Lines in Egypt" express in very excellent quatrains the feeling of the mystery and immutability of that...
...ball shall be declared dead when any portion of the player except his hands or feet touches the ground while he is in the grasp of an opponent...
Last night the Juniors won the class debating championship by the unanimous decision of the judges, defeating the Sophomores in the Pasteur Medal Debate. The Pasteur Medal was unanimously awarded to A. Davis '07, who excelled both in his strong presentation and his grasp of the issues under discussion...
...hair-splitting technicalities over the correctness and orthodoxy of such and such a creed, or to endeavor to interpret great and sacred mysteries in such a manner as to favor individual sects or religious is merely to pervert the fundamental truth and make it so much the harder to grasp...