Word: grips
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Another reason is that ignorance of uncleanness is the secret of freedom. There is something terrible about the grip of evil. The more a man tries to forget it, the more it grips him. Even the purest man knows something of its slavery and shame...
...question at stake is by no means a trivial one. The central states are growing far more rapidly than the eastern in population, in wealth and in culture. Is Harvard to continue year by year to lose her grip on this most vital section of the country, and to become a provincial college with provincial short-comings? Without casting slurs upon Massachusetts, I am free to say that it is the West that Harvard should look for new material in each new class; and yet the West, with a vastly larger population than in 1894, has diminished representation by nearly...
Whitwell, number 6, is very long, and is apt to lose control in getting to the full reach, thereby failing sometimes to get a good grip of the water...
...opening and rebuttal speeches of Yeomans were on the whole the best speeches of the evening. Mayer's closing speech was marked by a grip and drive that must have done much to turn a close case. Trowbridge of Yale had a clearness of expressing himself which was remarkable. Leavitt's rebuttal work, especially in turning the Harvard argument, was extremely clever...
There seems to be an unfortunate failing, a sort of blindness which suggests mental weakness, that takes a firm grip on large numbers of Freshmen every year. They have to be told upon all possible occasions where they can do most to benefit themselves, and there is no end to the necessity of prodding them on to do things which they ought to have sense enough to do of their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified...