Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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We talk about the over-emphasis of football, but what about the over-emphasis of Harvard's "Influence" which has apparently ruined what little college spirit we ever had? The lackadaisical attitude of the undergraduate body, whose support of the team this year has consisted in little else than occupying...
The core of influence that has formed a constant purpose amid the changing size and shape of the University during President Lowell's regime, to use his own terminology, in the intellectual and social integration of Harvard College. Beyond the College this double emphasis has been carried out in the...
During the length of years into which his administration has extended President Lowell has become identified in the outside world with the ideas of educational progress that now appear overpoweringly necessary in an era of material change. To those now within the University he signifies that forethought, courage, and vision...
The depression is not the only factor in this trend, however, and it is not the most important. The House Plan is this year just getting into regular operation, and it is undoubtedly a reason for the improvement; the fact that the Senior class, the class which has enjoyed only...
For the ambitious concentrator in English there is probably no more lamentable departmental weakness than that long inherent in the treatment of dramatic literature. Emphasis is placed on private silent reading of plays, even though, except for closet drama, such a method of study can hardly do full justice to...