Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another part of the exhibit shows typical examples of New York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated...
Last year, Dr. Abraham Flexner, philosophical critic of educational systems, made a thorough survey of American, English, and German Universities, concentrating in large measure on the undergraduate college. In the present Atlantic Monthly he turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant...
Dr. Flexner's criticism is essentially correct, and well founded on fact; his proposed remedy, that universities should free themselves from the shackles of commercialization by the route of endowment, is sound. A transformation of emphasis there must be and it can come only from a determined and unceasing effort...
The cure lies in a close-reined and less liberal supervision of the course. The lecturers might succeed, as some already do, in relating their lectures more closely to the material and purpose of the course, without slipping into the easy error of repeating background material to be found in...
Dunster House has more than any other, refrained from building up a "House spirit". The atmosphere which prevails is one of extreme informality. There are no expository pamphlets on the House, no formal notice blanks, the House is not run on a highly organized basis. There is no appeal to...