Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play...
"I am in entire sympathy with the instruction rather than tutorial instruction, should be reduced for undergraduates. Some further steps might well be taken at this time to reduce the emphasis on examinations in courses, not regularly open to Freshmen.
Another, and more general problem, is the weighting which tutorial work should have in the scholarship grants. The tutorial reports now submitted are largely blanket recommendations, with an occasional blanket vote. Unless the tutorial work were rigidly graded, and this is for obvious reasons undesirable, the tutor is unwilling to...
The courses offered at Harvard in military and naval science are a legacy from the post-war days, when all of us, from William Roscoe Thayer down, were far more convinced of the efficacy of war as a social instrument than we are now. They have followed the trend of...
Needless to say, a trip across the continent by the Nassau team merely in an attempt to seize an ephemeral sovereignty of the American gridiron could only serve to involve Princeton athletics in the much bandied accusation of "over-emphasis," a charge that has, fortunately, hitherto been given little or...