Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian attendance; its chapel attaches to no particular creed; but it knows the value of religious influence encouraged by the university itself, on the campus and having some place in students daily life. It is regrettable that our state universities have been deprived of the opportunity Harvard seeks (to grasp more richly and completely through its new memorial...
...waiters crew made its initial appearance today. It paddled downstream about two miles, keeping the stroke very low in an effort to attain coordination and a universal grasp of the principles of rowing. The navy stroke is the one employed, with a long lay-back...
...which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...
...defects of much of our teaching and especially of the lecture system is that this part of the function of education is to a great degree lost from sight. An improvement in our examination system which will measure the grasp of a whole subject is, I believe the most serious advance that can be made in American education today...
...last week as a super-bandit rapidly on the make and already seriously to be reckoned with as the rival of Chang, Wu and Feng. Two years ago Sun possessed only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin...