Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The increasing emphasis on Inter-House athletics, as indicated by the recent decision permitting men on probation to compete, has created a demand even stronger than before for the extension of permission to past letter men and those on the Varsity. While the authorities have endeavored to insure everyone the...
Philosophy 3b considers the cosmologies of Lucretius, Plato's Timaeus, and Newton. There is also emphasis on Descartes. In contrasting the Timaeus with Lucretius, Professor Whitehead sketches his own cosmology, which is based largely on the former. In the lectures the modern world is seen through the eyes of probably...
In the prescribed reading, which is not unusually difficult, and in the examination, where there is a choice of three out of 11 questions, the emphasis is on understanding a few topics thoroughly. A wide range of choice is permitted, in picking a topic for the course thesis. Concentrators in...
The reading, mostly culled from the familiar "From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy," covers more or less completely the whole of English literature to the end of the nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the recognized great names, and the most of minor writers are disregarded. Little historical knowledge of the...
The work of the course consists in learning the meanings, actual and supposed, of every word in six of Shakespeare's plays. By the time one is through with the course, he ought to know something about Elizabethan English. Some students actually do. Otherwise there is a good deal of...