Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable...
...work in so many different fields is demanded that the candidate for admission is literally swamped with the multiplicity of subjects required of him. The result is that his knowledge amounts to but a smattering of his various courses. This hastily acquired and superficial knowledge, moreover, slips from his grasp too readily when the examination is past...