Word: scope
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Organization of National Scope...
...since the beginning of the year 279 men have been enlisted in some form of social work. A large number of these men, about 130, are engaged in teaching foreigners and workingmen and leading boys' clubs in Cambridge; the remainder are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers is very wide, ranging from teaching elementary subjects, such as English, mathematics, and civics, to leading groups of boys who are interested in athletics, music, dramatics or scouting. Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of social service. For example...
...English, headlines seem too elaborate, however. The new features speak well for the ingenuity and enterprise of the 1917 board. The inconvenience caused by the late publication is easily offset by the absence of some of the more distressing errors. The scope of the book has been enlarged to include articles about several of the Graduate Schools; a map of the University showing the location of the clubs and the homes of undergraduate activities; and a calendar of the year's events made particularly up-to-date by the incorporation of the baseball schedule, hitherto unpublished. The feature...
...enlarging the scope of the book, the editors have sacrificed convenience to some extent. The alphabetical order of arrangement has not been followed in every respect, and slip-ups in the spelling of names will annoy some. The volume also lacks some of the up-to-date features of last year's; for example, this fall's Phi Beta Kappa elections and other important events now a month old do not appear. Perhaps, however, the attempt at greater accuracy prevented their incorporation...
...Butler, president of Columbia University, New York, for an increase of $30,000,000 in the endowment fund of that institution so that it may proceed at once with important undertakings, illustrates, among other things, the marvellous advance that has taken place in the conception of the mission and scope of higher education since the days of John Harvard and Eli Yale. The college founder or president who used to think in terms of thousands is now thinking in terms of millions and tens of millions. Christian Science Monitor...