Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The progressive movement in education has emphasized dealing with the whole life of the pupil. It has recognized the importance of a scientific approach to educational problems. It has urged that pupils should be stimulated to interested self-activity under conditions of reasonable freedom instead of "learning" assigned lessons. Above...
A merger between the University of Chicago, on Chicago's South Side, and Northwestern, on the North Side and farther north in Evanston, would bring under single control some 20,000 students. Undergraduate work would continue on both campuses. Some post-graduate departments would consolidate to the south, some...
¶ Reacted with dominant Conservative cheers and impotent Laborite scowls when brisk, cheery Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced an abrupt shift in the emphasis of Britain's current naval building program from small cruisers to large.
THE generic evil, of which all other are varieties, is, according to Mr. Fruchs, the exploitation of man by man. His book is an attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall...
No degree of care in admissions or in classification of the students can be useful, however, without cleansing the School of its intellectual dryrot. "Towards this end, the course system ought to be wholly abolished for the first group of students and modified for the others, letting the vanity of...