Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The possibilities opened up by this discovery are innumerable. Margaret Sanger will no longer be able to declare birth control a necessity to prevent overpopulation; her opponents will simply abolish competitive athletics and its dependent literature. Of course, there might be some difficulty in enforcement--"Freddie on the Football Field...
There has already appeared an increasing tendency towards placing the emphasis more and more on the school as the final phase in education. The attitude of Mr. Winsor at Middlesex and Dr. Perry at Exeter exemplify this trend, and one also finds in the public schools an increase in manual...
The Experimental College was founded with the purpose of developing "an understanding of the human mind as it creates and fashions the civilization in the midst of which men live." Students studied two civilizations treating them from every point of view in an attempt to realize this difficult ideal. This...
In general, though to a less marked degree, this is the attitude assumed by most of the universities and colleges which have undertaken educational reform. The emphasis has been taken off mass instruction and has been placed upon the individual. With all this stress upon the revision of curriculum few...
Yesterday, however, it was announced that Chicago was to inaugurate along with its new inflexible curriculum a house plan that conforms in physical make-up to the Harvard plan. President Hutchins does not say, however, that the idea is to create a new democratic feeling among his students. He does...