Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although in this case the dictum is from above, this bit of news fits in with a trend that sooner or later is bound to become dominant in American colleges. Prohibition has so enormously increased the emphasis on drinking as a part of the extra-curricular activity that a revulsion...
To view the question in its general aspect, however, we cannot help but think that the American college student needs a good deal more supervision than do his fellow students in England and on the continent. While in American students may go to college primarily to learn something--most of...
"The emphasis upon Christianity as 'a way of life' has become almost a movement. It cuts across all sectarian lines and transcends all credal boundaries."
Author Joseph Delteil has not written an ordinary biography of Napoleon. After you read this book you may well doubt whether Author Delteil could write an ordinary book about anything. Once There Was a Man Napoleon is a sometimes thundering, sometimes blustering, sometimes mellifluous narrative poem written in prose (it...
In the case of Harvard's a three year residence is almost a necessity before an intelligent acquaintance with its system of education can be acquired. The lecture, plan is merely the basis for the tutorial system and other such innovations involving a more individual and wider pursuit of learning...