Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
...fact that no one has ever yet succeeded in finishing an editorial during the exodus from Soldiers Field, would seem to make all comments, including this one, unnecessary. Nevertheless even extras have editorial columns so the only proper course of action in to grit one's metaphorical teeth, grasp the Cornn firmly in hand and on a Thursday evening offer glittering generalities concerning the results of the coming Saturday's game. All of which is being very, very frank and allowing one's self an unlimited array of alibis in any case...
...apparatus are there weaknesses. Granted, the machinery is as yet on trial; nevertheless without criticism by tutors themselves, lecturers, and tutees that machinery will never be adjusted to perfection. Professor Eaton is quoted as saying that the tutor should endeavor to humanize and unify the student's grasp of his field. Others have made the same remark and all have been quite correct. Unfortunately the results have been disappointing in some respects. The disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been and are present, however, and the sooner the relationship...
...Professor R. M. Eaton, chairman of the Board of Tutors in Philosophy, in a statement to a CRIMSON representative declared yesterday that the lecture system must continue to bear the load of imparting information, while the tutor integrates this diverse material and aids the student in gaining an intelligent grasp of the whole field...
...Oxford the tutor must prepare his students for exacting examinations. In Harvard the tutor can presuppose that the student is acquiring in his courses sufficient information to pass his examinations, and is therefore free to humanize and to unify the student's grasp of his field...