Word: stresses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much seriousness and force the question--"Does the Union fulfill the purpose, for which it was built?" The answer is strictly in the affirmative. The tone of the article is optimistic, although Mr. Lunt concedes that the Union has not yet reached its highest possibilities. He rightly lays much stress on the fact that the Union is the only club in the University which can be regarded as thoroughly representative of Harvard, reminding all Harvard men of its claims upon them and of the fact that the Union is a house open to all Harvard men without restriction...
...Boston City Club gave a dinner last evening in honor of the Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell, in speaking of the relations of the University to the community, laid special stress on the importance of confining university extension to fields in which the existing resources of the university could be placed at the service of the community. It was much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular...
...work will be conducted under the usual conditions and the customary standard of efficiency will be required. In this competition, which will close shortly before the mid-year examinations, stress will be laid rather upon the quality and accuracy than upon the quantity of the candidates' work...
...work will be conducted under the usual conditions and the customary standard of efficiency will be required. In this competition, which will close shortly before the mid-year examinations, stress will be laid rather upon the quality and accuracy than upon the quantity of the candidates' work...
...dogmatic in this matter, for it is one on which great divergence of opinion exists. The instructors in the various professional schools are by no means of one mind in regard to it, and their views are of course based largely upon experience. Our Law School lays great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned to use them, can master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true...