Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...West, who draw very largely from the states in which they are located, but who cannot entice thorough representation from the East. The statistical title is one for statisticians to determine; the real claim to rank as our most national university will depend upon an institution's grasp of the spirit that should live in American nationalism and of its ability to consider the interests of all sections even though training the majority of its students from only a few. --Boston Transcript...
...falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp on his idea. Instances of this are the eighth line of "The Little Cares" and the close of the "Night of Winds." In Mr. Cutler's Dirge for the Bucentor" and "Abdominal Patriotism," he again exhibits the quizzical satirical turn with which he has several times enlivened the pages...
...have died on the field should draw barely enough to fill a third of the Chapel is a terrible indictment of the majority of the University. For it shows that our joyous, carefree, trifling population were so occupied with themselves over their little businesses that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost one of the very few opportunities given them to show that they are alive and sensitive to the great agony of this war, which has escaped them and which they by their lethargic callousness choose to shun. Granted that the hour was most...
Samuel Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
...that the Yale team fills the mind with suggestions of immense potential power and knowledge of the game. Its feet, for the first time in several seasons, rest upon the bed-rock of fundamental excellence. No Yale team at any time of any season since 1913 has shown better grasp of the art of bringing a runner to earth. There was a powerful line-charge, which carried the forwards into the path of the ball; the ends smashed in and worked well with the men in the tackle positions. The ball was closely followed, blocking was cleanly done, and, above...