Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just charges of pedantry have been made against the specifications for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; the emphasis has been placed by Universities on accumulation of course credits and by examiners on display of minute factual data. The announcement by the Department of Sociology of its changes in Ph.D...
Much of the work of the Model Assembly is done in Committees, which whip into shape subjects to be discussed at the Plenary Sessions of the Assembly proper. From Harvard, Messrs. Rubin, Shuebruck, Daniels, Loring and Portal are working upon problems incidental to the task of disarmament. Messrs. Furlong, Blinn...
Elsewhere in these columns will be found a quotation from the Christian Science Monitor regarding the abandonment of "Old Plan" examinations which is advised by the report of the Overseers' committee of Harvard University. According to the report, this particular form of examining does not supply the college with all...
However, the Harvard report recommends even a greater departure from any entrance requirements which place emphasis on points of examination credits. It continues that whatever methods of admission are adopted, they should be such as to insure the selection of candidates able to do work of the quality Harvard requires...
While on the question, it will be interesting to see what Princeton and Yale believe. President Angell says, "We have been giving increasing weight to the school records made by the students before coming to Yale and to such evidence as we can command regarding essential personality." Princeton has developed...