Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited numbers, the suggestion has been made that the proportions of men elected in the fall and the spring should be altered, to allow the election of the largest number possible on the basis of four years' work instead of three. The Harvard faculty has come to stress more and more, in awarding honors, the work done in the Senior year, when students by means of theses and general examinations, have the opportunity to show how well they have digested, and how maturely they can employ, the facts acquired from their first three years' study in twelve or thirteen separate...
During this prolonged period of financial stress, the press has done much to keep the public informed concerning the trend of affairs, too much. Front page stories detail bank failures, unemployment, and other indications of industrial distress. While the known value of such stories in good, there is doubtful benefit for the general morale. The financially depressed public is hurried deeper into mental despair by such emphasis on its woos. It in becoming tired of being aroused by journalistic cries of wolf at each false down of prosperity...
...outcome of the recent general election in England is a conclusive proof of the fundamental soundness of the English nation. The National party, which is itself overwhelmingly Conservative, swept all opposition aside, and demonstrated that in time of stress that the solid citizens realized the futility of Socialistic Utopia, and reverted to the sound Conservatism of Gladstone...
...further limiting of the loans and aids for needy students brings to mind one of the most immediate problems facing Harvard. There will undoubtedly be more demands for aid this year because of the general financial stress. Instead of adding to the funds for helping men, the Committee on Scholarships and other Aids is attempting to stretch the existing funds to meet the increased needs. The method adopted is to assign the amounts according to scholastic attainments. Although formerly exceptional scholarship was not necessarily taken into account in the distributing of loans, students are now confronted with the necessity...
...those who have read the book. The direction, typically Continental, is particularly Teutonic in its effort for detailed correctness of setting and costume--even the windows of the bar where the hero imbibes are lettered in appropriate Russian for beer, tea, and coffee. But it seems unnecessary to stress such perfection of immaterial details, especially as the characters do talk German and not Russian...