Word: stress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Without attempting to give a synopsis of the article, we venture to make a few extracts. No little stress is laid on the fact that English universities have abandoned the field of professional education, while the best-organized American universities have begun to make "professional education a successful and important part of their service to the public...
...catalogue alludes to the many advantages in the way of art-schools, music-schools, preparatory department, etc., which the college affords, but lays peculiar stress on the location. Springfield, Missouri, the seat of this Institution of Learning, is celebrated, we are told, for its salubrious climate. The heats of summer are there less intense than in many places farther north, while this elysium is yet far enough south to escape the "rigors of northern winters." "At the same time the clear, dry air, entirely free from the malaria which infects so many parts of the West and Southwest, acts...
...from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited by the marks given by instructors, is imperceptible, either for good or evil. And without laying too much stress upon the fact that in the lower part of the class, where abuses are most likely to occur, it is found to be consistent with a considerable gain in percentage in the Senior year, it may at any rate be fairly concluded that the facts do not show that...
...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...than that generally prevailing in Europe, and to which the window, being on the south side of the Hall, is exposed - is directed to be constantly considered by competitors, in determining the tones of color to be employed in the construction of the window; and there is also great stress laid on the request to avoid ecclesiastical effects, as the general style of the window is to be essentially decorative...