Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is hard for an undergraduate to appraise the present tutorial system; but it seems to me that the time has come to put greater emphasis on the general examinations and less emphasis on the course work. The way to do this, probably, is to cut down the required number...
The reasons for giving course work less emphasis are both mechanical and psychological. Mechanically, as steps toward the mastery of a field, courses seem desirable either as introductory surveys to a general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of...
Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course...
The need for improved facilities for graduate work in the Dental School was the point upon which Leroy M. S. Miner, dean of the school, placed most emphasis in his annual report to President Lowell.
Rivalling Max Keezer in the range of its wares, the annual old clothing drive of the Phillips Brooks House will come to a conclusion with final collections this afternoon and tomorrow morning. A peculiar emphasis in the past has flooded the Brooks House with white ties, white vests, and discarded...