Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis started life with three cents. He accumulated a fortune. All his life he founded or bought papers doomed to failure, but never once did he fail. He hates details but can easily grasp them. He is a master of business but it has not enslaved him. He loves big things. He works hard. He enjoys vacations. He has always been scrupulously honest. He is a perfect judge of men. His associates and employees adore him. Cyrus H. K. Curtis is public-spirited. He is spiritual-minded. He never took music lessons but can play the organ...
President Hibben apparently stands halfway between. " In the final analysis," says he, " the power of the student to grasp the essential features of problems is the great differentiation between the educated and the non-educated man." But it may be said truthfully that the power to know what problems to wrestle with, and when, is a differentiation equally profound. Intense application to the essential features of the problems of violin technique during the combustion of Rome is hardly the mark of a sound education...
...calling as civilization advances and the industrial system becomes more and more complicated. Problems of investment, of valuation, of coordinating the factors of production, of forecasting business tendencies, are not solved by men whose chief qualification is the ability to "hustle". They are solved by men who have a grasp of facts and principles, and the ability to think. That is why trained economists are so much sought after in business...
...third. Murphy's race in the 300 was one of the features of the evening. He ran brilliantly for two full laps, leading a field of much more experienced men, but ran himself out before a sensational finish when two Dartmouth men snatched the two first places from his grasp...
...such a course come the informational questions, not to test mere faithfulness of work but the grasp of the subject and the accuracy of the knowledge obtained. For this purpose catch questions are of doubtful value. All is one to the scholar but odds and ends slip away too easily from men whose grasp of the subject may be perfectly satisfactory but whose memory is less tenacious of details...