Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every one of the points in question can not be taken up here but a few of the more important ones merit analysis. Raising the quality of the tutors is one of the first and most necessary tasks which must be accomplished. Excellent work on the part of a tutor...
5. The general examinations should be made less factual and more speculative to decrease the emphasis on the extension of detailed knowledge and place it on the development of critical and intellectual powers.
It goes without saying that social life plays an important part in any college today. Many of the critics of our colleges even contend that academic pursuits have been subordinated to social aspirations and in so far as this has been done the social life is detrimental to best results...
In commenting on the change Assistant Dean E. F. Wright '24 said, "The faculty feels that emphasis should be placed not on petty policing by hour exams and reports, and on accumulating grades, but on the total training in constructive thinking on business problems which the student is receiving. Hour...
May I suggest that TIME gives to physical characteristics an emphasis entirely out of proportion to their importance. It matters not at all that Capone is sleek and fat, that Chiang is wasp-waisted and shrill-voiced, and that Hearst is big-nosed. These persons' importance is in their...