Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stanzas of his "Living Song," but here, as in his "Poplars," there is a falling off at the close. His "Yesterday and Tomorrow" is beyond me. I suppose he means to hint at the kindness of a woman and the unkindness of a man; but I fail to grasp the symbolism...
Another example has been given of the failure of a student to grasp the fact that class-room lectures are confidential communications. Some of the very fair, though iconoclastic, remarks of Professor Channing were reported to the press and hopelessly twisted and colored. A flagrant instance of the same sort of indiscretion or faithlessness occurred three years ago in connection with an article of Professor Muensterberg's. It had its effect,--almost causing the expulsion of the offender,--but college generations are short, and this may now be forgotten...
...active politics to lawyers. Modern public life has in it many men who are not of the legal profession; politics profits by the participation of men of varied points of view. And as regards training, it may again be emphasized that not special subjects so much as a general grasp of life problems and the power to think are the requisites. Good work in almost any department will develop them...
...more concrete realization of the intellectual and emotional scope afforded by music of the highest type, and establishes the unassailable right of the arts to occupy a position as a means of culture fully equal to that afforded by literature. In view, of the astounding failure to grasp the comprehensive attributes of music as a cultural factor. Professor Spalding's article is timely and its pervasiveness is supported by felicitous quotations, of which those from Carlyle and Nietzeche are the most notable...
...Musical Review," continues his detailed discussion of the works of Richard Strauss. If no strikingly novel criticism is to be found therein, there are many facts relating to the genesis of Strauss more important works, their technical and esthetic character which are presented with a continuity and grasp which makes them valuable to a less informed reader...