Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first story of the number. "The Choice" is obscure in its meaning. It is hard to understand the feelings of the hero and harder still to grasp the situation. "A Character Sketch" is not a very deep study, but merely an account of the doings of a kleptomaniac. "The Reward of Indolence" is poor. The author's strongest point is in his descriptions which are not above the average. "Blackberries" by Kenneth Brown is pleasant reading though it tells no story and has little point...
...this nest that we should strive for, this position in which we feel ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...
...Corpse's Grasp", is not sufficiently original or well written to deserve a place in the number...
...work has proved him emminently fitted for the position. He has been one of the best players on the eleven and his election is a fitting tribute to his work. The prospects for another year have never been so promising as they are today; we have obtained a firm grasp of the principles of football such as we have never had before, and we can have perfect confidence in the ability of Captain Waters to employ them to good results...
...outlook for the future that this game is encouraging. We are beginning to feel the effects of a study of football that is in the best sense scientific. It does not rely upon individual play or upon the experience of a single year, but it seeks to grasp the principles of the game and to develop them from year to year. This has been the secret of Yale's power. She always has brilliant individual players but it is to her traditions, to the atmosphere, of to speak, in which her men are trained, that she looks for victory. Until...