Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Credit for the most damaging advance yet made against big-business football in the colleges must go to Yale University, which, in a report of a special committee appointed by President Angell, has announced a radical change in its athletic system. For two decades there has been a movement in...
Male costumes shown at the First All-Union Style Show strikingly resembled the female garments except for a leaning toward brighter colors. New patterns in cloth avoided flowers, stripes, dots or other Capitalist commonplaces. Stressed instead were cogwheels, electric flashes, light bulbs, tractors, cotton mill spindles, atheistic symbols, airplanes, dirigibles...
Your editorial-writer takes modern "educators" to task for their emphasis on "method." Dean Holmes retorts that there are more things in method than are dreamed of in your editorial-writer's philosophy. What are these things? For an answer, we might well consult that interesting but none too literate...
Publicized into overemphasis, U. S. college football has long been a subject of concern to wise-headed educators. Last year Columbia's President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler urged that rich alumni endow football so that football could forget gate-receipts. Said he: "Perhaps what is needed is an academic...
But it was Yale which announced last week a radically new athletic policy. Though de-emphasis of athletics will be the result, it was not the sole cause of Yale's step. It was necessitated by Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness' $12,000,000 "house plan" under which Yale...