Word: overstresses
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...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...
...clear that these courses deal primarily with grammar and translation; several courses in the other languages which are counted for the literature requirement likewise overstress linguistics. It is obvious that an understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of a language is a necessary prerequisite to a literary appreciation of works read in that language, but the "language requirements" are designed to assure that the student has acquired these elements before his graduation The true appreciation of a literature must include the understanding and enjoyment of the work in the whole and of the literature in its historical and humanistic relations...
...obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...