Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were sent down two miles to the Navy Yard and then back and a mile upstream, with the stroke varying from around 20 to above 30. Although the main emphasis was laid on style and proportion, the coaches also drilled the oarsmen on speeding their work. This stress on form is made because it is felt that although the boat has power and endurance, better rhythm and balance will increase the speed materially...
...plan outlined seems to lay primary stress on examination grades, for the Princetonian advocates a system whereby "all who pass the entrance examinations with an average grade of, say, 80 or 85', should be admitted without further examination, providing, of course, they are of good moral character." If enough scholars applied the enrollment limit might be reached but the fact is that most of us are too dull to enter so easily. Although the university's aim may be to mould men, under this plan the scholar is still given the place of honor...
...conclusion of the report of the Student Council Committee on Scholarship it is recommended that a Freshman mass meeting be held early in the year to stress the advantage of high scholastic standing. It also suggests that Freshmen be informed as to the details of the academic honors and degrees awarded by the college. The abstract encouragement of scholarship is of course highly desirable. But it seems to us to be far more important to make sure that every Freshman know the details of the requirements for distinction. Every student who is reasonably intelligent comes to appreciate the importance...
...officers: President, Samuel Augustus Duncan of Englewood, N. J.; vice president, Cornelius Hawkins Hawes of Fall River; secretary-treasurer, Corliss Lamont of Englewood, N. J. In addition, plans were discussed for entertaining the Exeter men who will be in Cambridge Saturday to compete in the Interscholastic track meet. Special stress was laid on the importance of Exeter graduates at the University returning to the school Alumni Day, Saturday, June 11th...
...fact that the usual method of probing, the written examination is to be employed. The preversion of this delicate instrument into an extractor of meticulous bits of unrelated information is a sad fact of experience to most of us. No doubt those who formulated the new rules mean to stress intelligence and to make the examination broad and general rather than textual. Let us hope...