Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pragmatism was pretty radical when Dewey took it up. Applied to education, it put the emphasis on the student-teaching must be adapted to the individual pupil, instead of making all study the same thing in the same rote-ridden way. As director of the University of Chicago's...
To explain America's unique religious situation in a book for British consumption, the Cambridge University Press picked the dean of Harvard's liberal, 300-year-old Divinity School, a New England Congregationalist with a B.A. from Oxford. Published last week, Dean Willard L. Sperry's Religion...
Time Out. Luckman, who has been executive vice president of Lever Bros. since Jan. 1, is now set to go like hell. He has shaken up the top level of management, plans to shake it even more by bringing up young blood from within the company and from outside. Probable...
Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in...
Then with the war still on, a far greater emphasis on the sciences appeared. Economics, always a favorite, was still ahead with ten per cent of 300 students choosing it. But Chemistry came next with 24, and Biochemical Sciences held fourth place with 18, barely nosed out by English. Government...