Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing in the current Saturday Review, Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter self-confessed educational authority strokes a black N. G. on American colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps...
"In short," he concluded, "the prison problem must be separated from politics; laws like the Baumes law, which, incidentally, have been tried in western states and given up as failures, and which were directly responsible for recent prison breaks, must be repealed; most important of all, the emphasis must be...
The real service of debating at Harvard lies in another direction. The University Council should turn its attion from debates with outside institutions and instead attempt to stimulate intelligent public discussions within the University. By staging debates between House teams or different societies, a much larger number of men would...
Sounding a warning that liberal colleges are being crushed between university and high school, Dean Stoddart of the University of Pennsylvania, in yesterday's Herald-Tribune, lays the blame entirely on the college thresholds. He charges that instead of resisting the pressure intelligently, they are yielding to the tendency to...
Dean Stoddart's plan would therefore be the very death of these liberal colleges which he seeks to rescue. Its whole fault lies in that he goes too far. It has been amply demonstrated by the success of several progressive institutions that what is really needed is not so much...