Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown's second contention is, that mass education is a healthy thing because it increases the emphasis placed upon the individual. In years past it was possible to give the few students a conventional polish and send them out into the world. Now with so many to instruct, it is...
Colleges have placed a great deal of quite natural and understandable emphasis upon the substance of volumes. But this emphasis has prevented any real appreciation of books as books. The pleasure gained from rare bindings and fine printing is only secondary, but it can well be a genuine source of...
Four years ago William Atkins, naval architect & designer, and Henry Dike Bixby, former commodore of Long Island's Huntington Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures...
Of the several departments the most notable changes occurred in increased number in Anthropology, Fine Arts, and Mathematics, while among the courses in Education those on Guidance, Social Policy and Education. Educational Psychology, Principles of Teaching, and the Teaching of English and the largest enrollments. In Physical Education for the...
The Utopian university suggested by Robert M. Hutchins, president of Chicago University, as outlined in the accompanying press clipping, contains several ideas worthy of consideration. One major change, outside of proposals for sweeping revision in the whole mechanics of the present day college, is stressed. This provides for emphasis on...