Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accorded a dominant place in the educational scheme, so long must it be dealt with seriously. If the University is not going to the extreme of abolishing course grades altogether, it ought to make certain that those grades in every case mean something definite about a student's grasp of a subject. The fact that in a few snap courses an honor grade indicates no real mastery of the field cannot fail to have a bad effect on the whole scholastic standard of the college...
...expect to grasp the opportunity created by the lack of material are advised by Coach Mikkola to report immediately...
While Mr. Coe has an excellent grasp of the field of education today, he is lamentably weak in his treatment of governmental theory. Belief in more democracy as a cure for the evils of democracy, and faith in a rather out-worn liberalism tend to weaken greatly the value of his constructive suggestions. And again, he fails to recognize that one generation is bound to try to teach the next the existing ideals and prejudices. People will not support schools which teach what are held to be subversive doctrines...
...college, especially an obscure female church institution, could find plenty of uses for one million dollars. How sad the plight of one which sees $1,000,000 snatched from its grasp! Such was the plight last week of Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia suburb...
...What a splendid thing," he exulted, "that it has passed from the uncertain and faithless hand of Baldwin to the statesmanlike grasp of [Canadian Premier] Bennett...