Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game at Cambridge on Saturday. Throughout the afternoon's drill, the first three teams took turns on the defensive against a team which put on Harvard plays as interpreted by the Dartmouth scouts. Coach Cannell has emphasized defensive play throughout the week's practice, with the result that little stress has been placed upon offensive drills...
...presence of Harvard men on the Vassar Campus evidently has such an avatarish note that it is not surprising the girls should tend to overemphasize the physical part of their pastimes. No wonder the shy visitors are frightened off, Perhaps more stress laid on intellectual amusements would make the guests feel more at home, but, after all, what are girls' colleges...
...little more than a decade he has been able to almost wipe out a world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest...
Zonite Products Corp. (Zonite, chlorine antiseptic, derived from the Carrel-Daiken solution used during the War. Its advertisements stress "feminine hygiene." Company has 51 % interest in Larvex, moth destroyer, is said to be planning a toothpaste.) Net income, first half 158,696 Net income, 18 mo. ended December...
...wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade. The arguments in favor of laying great stress on the weekly or monthly marks constitute in reality an indictment of examinations as an accurate test of knowledge. The good student may have an off day mentally or physically or may be so afflicted with examination nervousness as to fall far short of realizing his full potentialities. On the other hand...