Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject for the debate will be: "Resolved, that this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility." The same subject was used for the debate on March 14 in which Harvard defeated Dartmouth. Tomorrow night, the Harvard affirmative team will meet Yale at 8 o'clock in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. At the same time, the Harvard negative will meet the Princeton affirmative team at Princeton, and the Yale affirmative team will debate with Princeton at New Haven...
...year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare to make him a Marshal of France, the pinnacle of a French soldier's fame* His last great act took place at 5 A. M. on the morning of Nov. 11, 1918. He received the German...
...first debate over held between the two colleges, Harvard defeated Dartmouth last Saturday night at Banover, taking the negative side of the question: "Resolved, that this house views with alarm the present tendency of eastern colleges to stress the standards of business and professional utility in college education...
...University team will hold a debate with Dartmouth today at Hanover on the subject: "Resolved, that this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility in college education...
...France," continued Professor Esteve, "in our literature courses we use the specialty system. That is, we spend perhaps half a year studying one or two works of a single author, going through them carefully, laying great stress on an intimate knowledge of the original texts...