Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The dearth of other interests leaves academics as almost the sole outlet--with the exception of what is likely to be a heavy social schedule--for collegiate energy. If the past two terms have been characterized by an "unhealthy emphasis" on grades, the present term may well produce an even...
In the current American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Menninger gets right down to cases and gives a brisk lecture-not to society in general-but to his 4,000 psychiatric colleagues. To meet their postwar responsibilities, he implies, they had better pay less attention to rich ladies with imaginary complaints...
"Much in American history happened before 1776 or 1492. The birth of Christ in Palestine still arouses a deeper emotional response in Americans than even the Fourth of July. . . . The Athenian Plato, the Spaniard Cervantes, the English Shakespeare, the German Goethe, the Frenchman Balzac, played a large part in shaping...
The "unhealthy emphasis on grades" that Mr. Bender noted in his, "Report On the Veteran" he now feels is being given the needed treatment of a greater interest in extracurricular activities. Whether this is the trend in the right direction of getting the veterans out of their book-lined fox...
The "gentleman's grades" scholar will be encouraged by Teele's observation that most employers place little emphasis on strictly academic accomplishment. Extra-curricular abilities and, special interests are generally regarded as more important considerations, except in the scientific fields, where college work is much more closely correlated with vocational...