Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
...Faculty leaders of each group would be there to modify our extreme views by the common sense of experience and to lead our minds into new channels of thought. Thus the student would grasp new ideas, launch them enthusiastically, have them tempered and brought down to earth by opposition, and evolve practical opinions which make for construction...
...studied treatise on present war tactics, if not through the more personal contact of the lecture hall or drill field. And since he is so well known to us, we are fully aware of the fact that he is an officer with a keen military mind, and an excellent grasp of the means and methods of modern warfare. We have seen but little of him this year, but we have heard often of the work which he and his associates have accomplished at Devens. In fact there is not one member of the R. O. T. C. who cannot appreciate...
...believe that America and the world in general will accept the first alternative. But if we are to grasp the second alternative it must be at the cost of as much intelligent energy as is now applied to the higher but less vital activities of our civilization. While the college man cannot compete with the technically-trained man in the technical processes of production, he probably has a higher place in their ultimate direction. The man with the broad understanding of industry and human polity, not the specialist in one productive process, will devise the sweeping industrial reforms we need...
...maintain a close and hearty interest in this body of American citizens detailed for special duty, to support them not merely with munitions of war but with those supplies in which we can put pure admiration, our gratitude and our love, is our duty-a duty which we should grasp as a privilege. Our men will be none the less warriors because we remember them with letters and gifts. They are carrying our burdens, upholding our honor-and I for one desire to express as best I can the deep personal obligation I owe the youth who has taken...