Word: stress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Changes in curricula are numerous. In many institutions new emphasis is being placed on foreign trade courses, and Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...
...spirited "home Thoughts," Mr. Hood makes skillful use of alternate stress. His poem gives us a number of sharply-etched little pictures of phases of life in the active navy. the reader will remember the line: "The daylight strikes its colors in the West...
...recent editorial under the title "Page the Harvard Clubs" the CRIMSON mentioned certain possibilities open to these organizations. The figures showing the number of men from each state studying at the University give point to this subject. Too much stress cannot be put upon statistics during such an unusual year as this. The figures reveal a healthy representation from without New England, and it would be hard to duplicate the showing in any other university. Yet the numbers recruited from other states than Massachusetts is far too small when the opportunities offered are considered...
...registered in College Thursday, practically all have their discharge from the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. All of these have seen the stress which was laid upon physical well-being in the service. "All work and no play" was never a policy of the government. There were no bleachers. Every man was a player...
...Harvard as a seat of learning and also as a source of action. I have a strong feeling that, whereas in the past Harvard has gotten much inspiration from her older sisters at Oxford and Cambridge, in the future, and in the near nature, under the strain and stress of the construction which must take place after this War, the older sisters will have something to be the younger, an Harvard will be in a position to show the possibility of changing a seat of learning with the real lives of the people, to show that a great university...