Word: graspingly
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...than the preparation the divisional examinations require could probably be divised. Their whole idea is based on the presumption that men who come to college want an education and not merely a degree. Such examinations, demanding as they do a broad knowledge of a subject and not a temporary grasp of a few courses, are, indeed, the promise of the Harvard of the future...
Your convictions are not without an answer here in America. Few Americans were on the front long enough to react after this ironical year of "Peace" to the smells and sounds of your words, without which we cannot grasp your great or caustic truths. We are dangerously equipped to inform those who follow us, and we look to you and others, as Barbusse, to aid us. That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack...
...recently become less acute, less perceptible, and in many cases has been obliterated. Great issues have become more identified with personal than with political partisanship, as the Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire the political balance of power, without the disruption which attends the birth of a third party. This is the opportunity for patriotic...
Since farming is an outdoor rather than an indoor industry, it is subject to times and seasons. The farmer's work must be done when outdoor conditions are right and not when the farmer would prefer to work. This is a point which many indoor people fail to grasp. They are so independent of the sun and so much the slaves of the clock that they can not even rise an hour earlier in the morning without setting their clocks ahead...
...average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads the morning paper more or less carefully and possibly sees one of the weekly...