Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference, as the statistics from the Law School show, what a man studies, but how he studies it. And for real grasp of the life he must live, a man must not only know as nearly as possible something about everything, but as nearly as possible everything about something
...long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted with the facts and conditions, of one of the most important and far-reaching changes made by the new administration. Dean Castle has summarized Mr. Lippmann's objections before replying to them, thereby enabling the reader to grasp both sides of the argument at the same time; and the article does more than anything hitherto published toward strengthening faith in the new plan...
...committee mentioned above concludes its report by suggesting to instructors, "in addition to the ordinary tests for passing a course, the experimental use of special tests designed to measure intellectual power or grasp of a subject." A few instructors have tried this plan with apparent success. The CRIMSON wishes to endorse the scheme heartily, and hopes that all those instructors to whose courses it is applicable will adopt it in making out their next examinations...
...profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable...
...work in so many different fields is demanded that the candidate for admission is literally swamped with the multiplicity of subjects required of him. The result is that his knowledge amounts to but a smattering of his various courses. This hastily acquired and superficial knowledge, moreover, slips from his grasp too readily when the examination is past...