Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"What is a Puritan?" With great emphasis we are told that the Puritan is "an iconoclast, an image-breaker". "Puritanism is an urgent exploring and creative spirit." It seems that Professor Sherman struck a snag somewhere. Would not his definition cover the men whose work he finds harmful to the...
Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 spoke next and declared that he believed the partisan system, and especially the bi-partisan system of government not only good but necessary and the only one conceivable by which we could make our present institutions function". He warned on the other hand, against an...
American athletics have long been a point of attack for foreign and native critics. Disproportionate emphasis, professionalism, limitation of athletics to the few on a "varsity" team or crew, have been the weak points singled out for attack. Since the war, however, there has been at least in the East...
"The chief problem", declares the report in discussing the disproportionate emphasis on athletics and football in particular, "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due...
Six European students, after completing a tour of thirty American colleges, were unanimous and emphatic in their criticisms. Perhaps their most interesting remark was one which had to do with undergraduate activities. In this country, an English student, said, one goes to college not to develop himself, but to distinguish...