Word: stress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard...
...occupy one hour daily for six weeks. Course A consists of lectures with experimental demonstrations, in which the facts and theories which constitute our modern knowledge of the psychical life will be explained and illustrated. As a knowledge of psychology is especially important to teachers, these lectures will lay stress on those problems which lie on the border between psychology and pedagogy, and will emphasize the educational bearings of psychical facts. Course B would be given in case a sufficient number of interested persons from course A wished to take it. It would be open to no others. The course...
...devoted to their needs, but must rely on contributions from a general fund out of which many other needs must be supplied. To devote an extraordinarily large proportion of this fund to the buildings will result in great harm elsewhere. Moreover, so long as the results of the present stress in financial matters are felt, this general fund will probably be so limited that any unusual expense will be out of the question. The prospect of improvement by the college authorities is not hopeful...
...Blashfield opened his lecture by an account of the characteristics of the city of Florence, in which the Renaissance most flourished. He described the customs and dress of its people and pictured its streets and buildings. He laid special stress on the description of the mural decoration of the city, illustrating freely with the stereopticon...
...microscopic photography. He spoke especially of the working of the instrument used. Many combinations of lenses, constructed with peculiar care are necessary to do away with the spherical, chromatic, and actinic aberration of the light. The presence of any of these defects mars the accuracy of the work. Stress was also laid on the difficulty of photographing the many colored images, the points of focus of the color rays and of the actinic rays lying in different planes, and of the method of regulating the exposures. This is a fundamental point in all photography...