Word: stress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking how much stress should be laid on the final examination in computing the grades for Government I, Professor Holcombe, whose letter appears in an adjoining column, raises a question of fundamental importance for all elementary courses at Harvard. Grades in advanced courses may usually without misgivings be determined on the basis of one or two examinations and possible a thesis. But the problem is not so easily solved for such large elementary courses as Government I, History I, or English...
...also feel that if there is no such pronounced public opinion sufficient to deter future offenses against good taste and the fair name of Harvard, such an opinion among undergraduates and alumni should be created under stress of such an article as was recently published in the Lampoon and sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste...
...Storm and Stress Period". Professor Silz, Sever...
...Storm and Stress Period", Professor Silz, Sever...
Incidentally, even the Crimson is not so free from "The stress of competition of the business world." On February 28, there appeared a half page advertisement of the University Theatre featuring signed testimonials from several editors. It is rumored that each editor received forty dollars for this act of kindness...