Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after doubling the Los Angeles enrollment, efficient Mrs. Mudd was named at the national convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re...
When Harvard was expanding rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it needed many famous scholars to attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is...
This emphasis on teaching follows the trend established by President Lowell in making Harvard a more personal institution. The roots of this trend lie in the House and tutorial systems; they result in a closer and more complete relation between teacher and pupil. Where once the impersonal lecture system flourished...
Less emphasis on broad fields, especially the Social Sciences and English, and more diffusion by concentrators among the specialized sciences and humanities, are indicated by the figures on concentration released by Reginald H. Phelps, Assistant Dean in Charge of Records.
"However, through the selection of insignia, procedure, songs, and topics for discussion, the emphasis of the Club meetings is on those things that are abiding, rather than on forces and events more lurid than lasting. The German Club seeks to recreate in America the spirit and fellowship of German student...