Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university orchestra can not attempt to compete with specialists in the field, it should lay its stress on its educational value as a creative and practical laboratory. The emphasis should be on the benefit to be derived by the players rather than the pleasure it gives to its audience. To eliminate in this way the Pierian's financial support derived from its concerts, some provision should be made for its endowment. At present the orchestra is dependent on the Music Department, both for the use of Paine Hall and for the work of its conductor, who receives no compensation...
...Business Depression as follows: "The American People are experiencing a return to religion following a period of carelessness and cynicism marked by the prosperity of the land. . . . Now they are returning when they find they are in need of something greater than the material in facing adversity and stress...
Furthermore the best collegiate education is the best business training today. Callisthenes need not worry about an incentive to enter the industrial world. Wealth holds more lure for most men than a captain's bars or a minister's gown. To stress business in education would be most inadvisable. American, today presents a most effective answer to the society which desires to revolve about an industrial axis...
...general, though to a less marked degree, this is the attitude assumed by most of the universities and colleges which have undertaken educational reform. The emphasis has been taken off mass instruction and has been placed upon the individual. With all this stress upon the revision of curriculum few universities have attempted social reform as well. Harvard has tried it, and Yale and Princeton are following in her footsteps though more cautiously. But up to now no college has had the courage to effect both an educational and a social reorganization at the samo time...
...communication or interpretation may be systematically and permanently acquired. Teachers who have recognized this potency of a program in recurrent examinations may wisely question how the defence attitude which many classes have unconsciously set up may be effectively broken down. Teachers who discern the true function of education will stress the training that develops power to place ideas in their true perspective. When a passage is being read, the pupils will be taught to determine the central idea, to recognize the major supports of that central idea, to rate at their proper value all the varied factors in its development...