Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is true that general distinction has advantages. It has the salutary effect of discouraging too great an emphasis on specialization, a tendency that Harvard has need to avoid. It offers some reward for good scholarship in general, for which the student really deserves recognition.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in the preface, summarizes: "The distinguishing aesthetic principles of the International Style as laid down by the authors are three: emphasis upon volume--space enclosed by thin planes or surfaces as opposed to the suggestion of mass and solidity; regularity as opposed to symmetry or other...
The desirable tendency to make engineering a subject for graduate schools, recently shown in the changes in the Harvard Engineering School, is evident, too, in the innovations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the first time the independence of the graduate school is recognized and it is given a separate...
Despite this change in emphasis, most men have no college training before entering the engineering schools. Yet the best professional schools of law and of medicine in the country have realized that students just out of high school can only get partial benefit from the advanced and highly specialized work...
The talks that will be given are: "Geting Mechanics Covered," Mr. W. S. Hinchman '01, Milton Academy; "Homogeneous Grouping and Honors Courses," Mr. D. A. Shepardson, The Choate School; "Training the New Recruits," Miss H. L. Harris, Gloucester High School; "Transferring the Misfit Pupil in English," Mr. W. L. Carney...