Word: graspingly
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...fact that they were so highly educated which destroyed those unpleasant young men in Chicago, but precisely the fact that theft colleges failed to educate them at all. They read the books, but they did not grasp the idea. A large majority of undergraduates also do not grasp the idea the difference is that they don't read the books. The results are far less dramatic, but they are, as the professor points out, even more serious because they are so much more widespread. New York Tribune...
...absence of undergraduates. There is no doubt but that the subject. "The Immortality of Man" requires for proper appreciation and understanding a deeper and broader experience than the undergraduate is likely to have had. At the same-time, there was much of a stimulating and unusually interesting nature, to grasp which required only attention...
...only does it develop a man's quickness and ability to coordinate his thoughts on the task at hand, but, above all, it teaches him the exact methods by which the big firms carry on their work in each branch of the business. It also gives him a wider grasp and knowledge of the whole field, and a broader outlook on the work in which he is not materially interested, than that of a man who immediately enters business and sticks to his own particular branch. The training is especially important for those wishing to enter the executive department...
...team entrained for New Haven Tuesday with an added confidence bred by its phenomenal victory over Dartmouth, but once again victory was snatched from its grasp by an Eli rally in the closing minutes. Gordon's all-around play was brilliant...
...handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant comfort to the players who had victory so nearly within their grasp...