Word: graspingly
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...benefits conferred by a college degree, prompted his coming to Harvard. But once he is within the gates, the tangible vanishes. He deals with the subtle and elusive powers of mind and spirit, and in his uncertainty the definite requirements for examinations at least give him something solid to grasp. It is not strange, therefore, that he should mistake examinations, intended as a means to an end, as the ends themselves of education...
Many people who know nothing and are capable of understanding less about sculpture are excited by the beauty that they instantly apprehend in Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of the theory that only a stupid man has any capacity for learning. It contains two secrets of Rodin's brooding intellect that 'are also the secrets of his popularity...
...they realize that it was intended to aid undergraduates who wish information on college courses beyond what they can find in official University publications. The Bulletin, however, when it criticizes the estimate of courses as "the unsupported say so of an undergraduate editor", has failed to grasp the spirit in which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from the introduction to the Guide in the CRIMSON of September 28: "Each opinion printed is the honest reaction of an individual of normal...
...Scholarly intelligence, which implies both a thorough grasp of facts and a mind alert to use them as the background for action...
...what are same of the specific opportunities that then out to you to grasp or to lose during the coming four years? Let us for a moment examine them in the light of your future careers. Let us look at the facts...