Word: stress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just this point that a college education is apt to be wanting, and it is for just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years...
...information in regard to the proposal. In response to this request the faculty yesterday laid before the faculty yesterday laid before the Overseers a majority and minority report. The majority report reiterates the arguments of last year and declares that the faculty has not acted in this matter under stress of losses or, of declining prosperity in Harvard College, or from any inordinate desire to see the number of students in the college or in the graduate school increased...
...thesis on the German Storm and Stress period is due tomorrow in Philosophy...
...when it is considered that a number of men who competed last fall, among whom are Greenleaf, Bailey, Tweedey, Philip Davis, Rogers, Hill, Cutting and others, are not entered, shows what strides cycling has made in the college even in the last few months. We wish to lay particular stress on the large proportion of absolutely new men who have entered. This increased active interest in the sport not only promises well for furture intercollegiate track contests, but also promises that a large number of distinctly new athletic men (by which we mean men who would...
...lenient and simple and this state of things is probably the foundation of the internal peace and content that has so long reigned in that country. The complicated and grinding tax system sowed the seeds of decay in ancient Rome, a fact upon which few historians have laid much stress. In modern times, to us the most famous rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that...