Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories, which are called "The Daughter of Alan Muir" and "Shadows of a Shade"--a somewhat far-fetched title have an unpleasant crotic trend. The scene and circumstances of the one are not very clearly visualized; the chronology of the other is rather difficult to grasp. Both show a certain power in attaining climax. Surely the writers' talents might better be employed in treating themes of college life...
Referring to the introduction at the Harvard Law School of the "case system," Mr. Hughes said, quoting from James C. Carter, "the lawyer's understanding does not 'firmly grasp the subject upon which he is engaged, until he turns to the actual cases as recorded in the reports and finds in them the living law as it has been actually developed by the real transactions of men.' It was inevitable that the standard of scientific method in teaching law should be raised, and it is the peculiar distinction of this school that it was raised here...
Just whether the plank suggested by the honorable Elihu Root and welcomed by a committee ready to grasp at any straw in sight means anything definite is debatable. Its adoption has saved the impending pother which the formulation of such a resolution would arouse if left to be settled by debate from the floor of the Convention. It has met with the acquiescence of party leaders. When the news of its passage reached the delegates, it is said that a "wave of enthusiasm swept the assemblage...
...than the preparation the divisional examinations require could probably be divised. Their whole idea is based on the presumption that men who come to college want an education and not merely a degree. Such examinations, demanding as they do a broad knowledge of a subject and not a temporary grasp of a few courses, are, indeed, the promise of the Harvard of the future...
Your convictions are not without an answer here in America. Few Americans were on the front long enough to react after this ironical year of "Peace" to the smells and sounds of your words, without which we cannot grasp your great or caustic truths. We are dangerously equipped to inform those who follow us, and we look to you and others, as Barbusse, to aid us. That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack...