Word: stress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While it may seem to the present Class Day Committee that we lay too great stress upon the matter, we can assure them that the abuse is one of long standing, and each year occasions increased complaint. If the practice is still continued we may justly look for a serious deterioration in the character of Class Day and the pleasures which attend it. The greatest care ought to be taken to improve to the best advantage the opportunities afforded but once in a life time to meet so many common friends upon such an occasion...
...rate, entirely unnecessary to declaim against the decision of the "one judge" on the ground that he was a Harvard graduate. The statement that the members of the Harvard team admitted that Yale had won the event has absolutely no foundation, and is evidently a foolish, partisan exaggeration. No stress can be laid on the fact that the Yale men carried their representative off the field, for that action was certainly premature, and, as was proved by the decision of the judges, had no foundation in fact...
...point on which Dr. Hale in his letter lays most stress is that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means...
...enabled the students "to improve his style beyond recognition." It is only just to say that we have been informed by the instructor in question why the practice was discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice...
...expense of considerable time and trouble. A pamphlet similar to that issued by the Natural History department, for example, could not fail to interest many in a department which is at present somewhat exclusive. A concise explanation of the purposed work of each course would lay more stress on the work of the department as a whole than can at present be expected...