Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statements are in direct contrast with stated University policy and the John Lord O'Brian report on the Divinity School made several years ago. The latter said, "The tendency to stress the historical rather than the constructive aspects of theology is in itself a symptom of theological decline...
...most striking thing about this program is the lack of importance of the liberal education, intellectual experience, per se. More stress is put on the practical aspects of college success which are important enough, but which are already prompting Dartmouth undergraduates including freshmen to wonder whether or not the college has missed a few things in its experiment. They wonder whether the difference in capabilities and background of students has not been overlooked. It is questionable whether all Dartmouth freshmen need equal amounts of instruction in reading and study habits and in health education...
...termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young men under the worst forms of stress...
When Brower says teaching, he means "preparing the student for a job of his own, in imitation of the job which I am doing. I want a minimum emphasis on rehearsing what I said and a maximum stress on preparation for doing what I did." He is not against the lecture system. "There is definitely a place for the presentation of the best sort of professional job of which a teacher is capable. The lecturer goes wrong as a teacher only when he is not most concerned with the student's imitation of that...
Concluded the U.C.L.A. researchers: "Our impression is that the very development of cancer in man might conceivably result from the physiological effects of inner stress which has remained unresolved by either outward action or successful adaptation...