Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Julian E. Butterworth, director of Cornell's Graduate School of Education, announced a compromise between these extremes. Next fall Cornell will start a five-year training course for high-school teachers. It will stress cultural education, but students will also spend one-fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...
Aside from the clash of personalities inevitably involved in a case of this sort, Professor Feild's concluding appointment is the result of a fundamental difference of opinion within the department. At present, overwhelming stress is laid on the historical and factual approach to the Fine Arts. Students are filled with names and dates, are taught to recognize famous pictures, to distinguish the works of one master from those of another. While there is a branch of the department devoted to design and actual drawing, it is isolated and disconnected from everything else, and no one seemingly knows...
...which he can judge art for himself, to show him the universal essentials which lie behind all art. The attainment of such a goal entails far less emphasis on facts and chronology--these become a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. It means greater stress on practical art and design; and more than this, a close integration of practical work and history. It means the coordination of art with other branches of knowledge. It means finally the demonstration of the connection between the Fine Arts and the present-day world. The arts would consequently cease...
...committee in charge said last night that the meeting would probably be held in Emerson Hall Wednesday evening. "We want to stress," it stated, "that the issue is too urgent to be seized upon as an instrument of propaganda. Harvard students may show their support in an effective...
...baseball, Stahl has introduced several plans. Batters are aided by a batting machine intended to improve the swing. Another machine is used for throwing, so that catchers and pitchers can concentrate on accuracy. The new coach recognizes the difficulty that college pitchers have in throwing curves, so intends to stress aiming at the corners...