Word: graspingly
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...more important than that is the fact that he is the only man in public life who had shown a real grasp of the labor situation. He alone has had the courage to handle it is a constructive...
...general way that he knows little particularly, especially politically. In consequence, he throws his energy here and there in a vain effort to land on the "side of right." He fears to attach himself to any cause which may be criticised adversely, and in consequence he often fails to grasp his opportunity for being a real factor in his country's political life. This group is not limited to the men in the universities; it reaches much farther and includes unfortunately the majority of the young men of the business and professional world. Leonard Wood believes in getting into...
...attention on the subject as a whole, rather than on isolated fragments of it; to lead the student to co-ordinate the information he obtains." The scientific method will doubtless still be observed; special reports and theses will still form a part of undergraduate training. But a breadth in grasp of fundamentals and ability in the use of knowledge will be equally requisite...
...discussion. Undergraduates are not urged to "go out" for discussion clubs; whatever part they take in such invaluable training must be spontaneous. And, beyond this, the undergraduate must train himself to apply efficient methods to a concrete problem; a training which the technical school supplies. For without a practical grasp of detail no amount of broad tendencies and ideas can be put to a useful purpose...
...dozen more than this. Meeting Yale without a single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...