Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a statement made last night by Joan Darbelnet, instructor in French, the French department "is putting more stress on sight packages in this year's final examinations...
Next to tossing off a round phrase of his own or snagging a quote from Shakespeare, John Llewellyn Lewis likes nothing more than to be shaved in bed. At times of stress, he indulges this soothing fancy whenever a barber is within telephone call...
...that Bert Haines, with the aid of a considerable backbone of veterans which made up half of the crew, and included the stern three, had once more built up an eight of high calibre. Perhaps for Haines. The only definite statement he made, and he made this with particular stress, was that the second lightweights were exceptional and that they constantly kept within two lengths of the varsity. This has been proved in practice. Bob Homans has with confidence stroked his eight to within the seven minute margin between the two crews with unbelievable regularity...
...probably attract a large number of students. Laboratory men, now too busy for extra-curricular history, might well fit a half-course into their distribution schedules. As a course it could be a new departure in Harvard education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might...
...instructors and courses is forthcoming. It has been for several years the Crimson's aim to furnish this advice to new men; hence, the Confidential Guide has become a traditional aid to incoming, Freshmen. This year, minus its somewhat misleading title, "Confidential," the Freshman Guide will be written to stress student opinion on first year courses, disregarding for the autumn at least the secondary problem of choice of fields of concentration...