Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The justification directly assigned for the change by the Harvard CRIMSON is that "it brings nearer the day when (all) Harvard undergraduates (except freshmen) will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes." Probably this...
The ultimate consequences of this shift of emphasis concerning the individual student will become, if the new tendency is long continued, very extensive. It can scarcely fall to exert a modifying effect upon the whole structure of American college education. Less and less faith will be placed, for example, in...
These times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize...
Violet Heming played the girl with burning emphasis, and Edmund Breese, staunch veteran, the lawyer.
"The phrase 'So's your old man' came to me while in a rather an amusing situation. It was at a benefit banquet and a group of actors, including myself, were waiting on the tables. A little Italian buss boy volunteered to explain to me my duties. The last sentence...