Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutor, 13 plays, two long poems, and one long novel, most of these being comparatively recent (not ephemeral) and not bearing particularly on the general examinations, work which must have required an hour or two of reading daily. So great is the stimulus that good Seniors develop a grasp and peise and intellectual initiative which advanced graduate students ought to have but often have not. . . . Partly owing, no doubt, to other causes, one notices a great diminution in pose, affectation, trivialty, merely superficial cleverness, airlness, a change which is visible in college journalism...
...will attempt also a measure of completeness we have not heretofore been able to attain. No student will be recommended for the degree of Master of Education who has had only such instruction and training as may develop his craftsmanship in teaching or school management without giving him a grasp of education as a whole. The new plan will provide a more thorough and more unfilled professional preparation. With only one year at its disposal, the School has been under pressure to give practical training at the expense of courses of a more fundamental character. Hereafter, our program will...
...crucified. Vexed, he spends another evening trying to capture his waking dream, to make it come true, but the trail only leads him to an impersonal female corpse in a hospital cellar. He tells his wife all about that, too. They finally agree that you cannot grasp all the truth, all the reality, of any experience, waking or dreaming. . . . People have not only patience but gratitude and admiration for Author Schnitzler's evanescent themes, because he writes, like so many cultured neurotics, beautifully...
...colonel, has the impressive bearing, the stubborn will, and the military self-righteousness of the typical Prussian officer as if he had spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp. Gis concept of absolute paternal rule, his narrow, strict moral sense is, to be sure, not an every day sight among the present inhabitants of this country. But there is certainly no American living who need search further than a Methodist grandparent or a German neighbor for first hand evidence...
Protestants, viewing these points of variance with alarm, wonder how Governor Smith will grasp the horns of the dilemma. New York Democrats are confident; they have seen him discharge the public trusts for 25 years...