Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purposes of a newspaper headline are: 1) to summarize, 2) to attract attention. Reputable papers stress summarizing. Sensational sheets seek attention. Both kinds, however, limit their headlines to facts within their stories...
...Parents are too anxious about their son's physical safety these days. Its all wrong, Preparatory schools should stress winning the game. Everybody should be forced to play and play hard and regularly...
There is no need of forgetting. I am even inclined to believe that any student who has honestly cultivated "the capacity to use facts and see their relations" will find it impossible to forget the facts themselves. Too often this selective process upon which the writer lays such stress is automatic and signifies only careless work. I refer, by way of contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four...
...this great gift in memory of a great business man should be for the advancement of chemistry through continuous research. With a chemical faculty that has won an international reputation and established the 'Harvard Methods' in European and American university laboratories hampered by utterly inadequate equipment, it is no stress of imagination to vision what this gift may mean to medecine, industry and science in the future. It is also a recognition of the essential unity of our campaign for the extension of the University's service in America...
...discussing the proper content of Latin courses in schools the report recommends that greater stress be laid on developing the power to read Latin and thus to obtain a cultural and literary background. To this end it is recommended that the formal study of the elements of language be somewhat reduced in the early years and that a wide selection of reading matter designed to furnish this historical-cultural objective be emphasized. Mythology, Roman traditions, home life and biography, and legends and stories appealing to the imagination of youth are subject matter recommended...