Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened to the Crimson, so free from "The stress and competition of the business world"? On October 23, Time, in an editorial, commented unfavorably on the North Carolina Game, and next day the Crimson rushed to the defense with a lead editorial entitled, "The Sneer and the Yellow Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges...
Room most certainly exists for an undergraduate socialist publication. Free from the stress and competition of the business world, the years in college provide an excellent background for men who wish to make a serious economic and social study. In the student section of the socialist movement one might hope to find a blending of youthful idealism and careful thinking that would bring a journal of opinion to a high standard. Discussions in such a medium should be by and for undergraduates, and of an original turn, uncolored with the general propaganda motive. The Progressive with its tabloid-like treatment...
...this book the Yale Department of Personal Study has embodied the results of its researches into the psychological and environmental factors which govern the attitude of the average undergraduate to study. The conclusions reached at the end of consideration of detailed data stress, among other things, the importance of purposefulness in the academic course of every student, and the harm done by the imposition of too many courses which are not of the student's own choosing...
...Bove '29 was the nucleus of the Crimson's case. Bove produced statistics to prove that the death penalty does not prevent crime, but may actually stimulate it. Brooks Otis '29, after an effective rebuttal of his opponents' use of emotional appeals, went on to popularize and stress the arguments presented first by Bove...
Besides its thrills "The Skull" has very little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...