Word: stress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Great stress is laid on the necessity of redeeming barren land by planting forest trees. American farmers have not yet realized the ruin they have inflicted by their indiscriminate destruction of forests making otherwise valuable land sterile and barren. At the Bussey Farm tracts of waste land have been planted with trees which are now quite flourishing...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Allow me to say a word about the way that the English Department has managed the junior themes. The first junior theme was a criticism. Last year the instructor of sophomore rhetoric in his lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis...
...Yale had laid great stress on the game being played in New York, Princeton finally got permission from the faculty to play there on next Saturday. But, all at once Yale put forth the claim that if the game could not be played in New York Thanksgiving, it must be played in New Haven - something to which Princeton had never agreed, and there seems to be no reason why she should have agreed to it. The tone of Yale has been such as to give plain notice to Princeton that in case the latter did not come to terms...
...will deny that the abundance of work required in the course and the great stress put upon English writing, carry within themselves the true theory of thorough culture in this most important branch, but at the same time, there are many things which require just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt...
...have given great impetus to the study of political economy at Harvard. The use of diagrams plays an important part in his plan. Diagrams are invaluable to a thorough comprehension of many principles of political economy, but it is a question if the writer has not laid too much stress upon this point. In some parts of the subject diagrams can be used freely, but sometimes a diagram may be as misleading as a false analogy, and therefore extreme caution is needed...