Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seniors preparing for the divisional examinations, covering in one half-year the required books of the ancients; in the other, the prescribed works of the great modern authors. Lectures by professors, authorities in the literature of the various ages under discussion, would give the student a more comprehensive grasp of the true significance of the books they were reading. In any case, the present system is unsatisfactory, and, unless some action is taken to lessen the general indefinite feeling about the new requirements, the plan that should prove an aid to a truly broad education, will become nothing more than...
...misfortune to the victors as well as to the vanquished. We have squandered human lives and property in a terrible way during the last six years. Now, like business men, we must cooperate and limit all obligations in the borders of possibility. If America and England do not grasp the necessity of cutting out the non-executable from their demands, they are bound to suffer heavily. Only when the victorious countries--France. Belgium and Italy--especially France, are alleviated in their burdens, can they in turn reduce their demands from Germany into a fulfillable sum. If this is not done...
...gone by when this work can be conducted effectively by men who have not a thorough grasp of the principles underlying their instruction. Physical training in schools has passed from the amateur into the scientific and professional stage, and it is gratifying to note that the need for physical directors has been appreciated by the colleges. That Tufts realizes the importance of the new course it has established is shown by the fact that college credit will be given in the same degree as for other courses in education...
...even possible. If the new Board at Yale is successful in solving this perplexing problem, it will settle a question which has been check-mating the greatest educators for many years. There is little doubt, however, that the present entrance requirements at Harvard are not within the grasp of any but the most intelligent and ambitious element of middle or far-western high school students. Most people believe that a larger representation of this class is highly desirable. Harvard's entrance requirements are so rigid and rules as to "conditions" are so severe that few men undertake the examinations...
...seems very doubtful whether under present circumstances a clean cut recognition of intellectual superiority is possible. Class-room competition between a man who devotes all his time to his studies and a man whose main interest is on Soldiers Field is obviously no test of the mental grasp of either. So long as work on the athletic field and on publications plays the highly important role in undergraduate life that it does today, those who receive the best marks will be those who are unfitted for or undesirous of executive, managerial, or athletic success. If therefore seems perfectly natural that...