Word: scope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article on "The Scope of Sir Henry Irving's Work," by Stanton Elliot '00, is a brief but very interesting sketch of Irving's career. There is no attempt at a deliberate analysis or criticism of the actor's art, but Irving's abilities and limitations are indicated with the clearness and fulness necessary to an understanding of his success and achievements...
...great advantages the Graduate School possesses in having, as its students, men who come with the predominant and absorbing idea of hard work. The varied motives which actuate men in the College are all merged into one serious determination to obtain a thorough knowledge of a particular subject. The scope of the Graduate School is much higher than that of the College, for the standard of admission to the one is the standard of graduation from the other. In closing, Professor Pierce extended a warm welcome to all new-comers...
...proposed this year to make some changes in the scope of the University Debating Club. Owing to the establishment of class debating clubs, and to the complete installment of that system in all four classes, the usefulness of the University Debating Club as an organization to carry on weekly debates has been diminished to a minimum. As a result, the club ceases to be particularly active. In view of the changed conditions, therefore, its work will be confined to executive functions, to the arrangement of the trials for the intercollegiate debates, and of debates between the Class Clubs, as well...
...joint committee has been formed to secure an endowment for the Veterinary School, with the intent of enlarging its scope and giving it a distinctly scientific character by making it a school of comparative as well as veterinary medicine. The committee consists of Dr. David W. Chever '52 and Messrs. Moses Williams '68 and Francis L. Higginson '63, appointed by the Board of Overseers and President Eliot, and Dr. Cabot appointed by the Corporation, together with the visiting committee of the Veterinary School. The school will bear the name of him who shall endow...
...societies both in this country and abroad. The list of publications to be indexed covers 185 titles and includes the works of all the important societies. The work is being done under the auspices of the Publishing Section of the American Library Association and if it proves successful, the scope of the plan will be enlarged by including perhaps government publications and works of a composite nature...