Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention on the subject as a whole, rather than on isolated fragments of it; to lead the student to co-ordinate the information he obtains." The scientific method will doubtless still be observed; special reports and theses will still form a part of undergraduate training. But a breadth in grasp of fundamentals and ability in the use of knowledge will be equally requisite...
...discussion. Undergraduates are not urged to "go out" for discussion clubs; whatever part they take in such invaluable training must be spontaneous. And, beyond this, the undergraduate must train himself to apply efficient methods to a concrete problem; a training which the technical school supplies. For without a practical grasp of detail no amount of broad tendencies and ideas can be put to a useful purpose...