Word: emphasised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But at Harvard the tendency of the last few years seems to be in the other direction. Young teachers are being turned into savants, who through years of research in some minute subdivision of intellectual activity, may become scholars and authorities in their special fields. The emphasis is on a...
Even if the administration wished to place more emphasis on a man's teaching ability and success as a tutor, when considering him for promotion, there is no sure and systematic method now in existence to judge him to this basis. Student opinion is rarely consulted or taken into account...
As long as modern college methods call for strenuous emphasis upon examinations as a means of estimating the progress of undergraduates in their fields, the phrasing and selection of questions will stand out as one of the most essential administrative tasks. That Harvard's examiners have sometimes slipped up in...
Most important of the new developments, Professor Hopper believes, is the industrialization and modernization of Asia. "Formerly raw materials flowed to the already established centers of civilization, but now a new process is apparent: civilization flows out to the sources of raw materials, reversing the process by which Europe expanded...
Although in the past, an over-emphasis was made on the pure translation, the intellectual and critical point of view is now stressed in a far greater degree. This tendency is a happy one since pre-college preparation in both Latin and Greek tends to be insufficient for a comprehensive...