Word: scope
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Procession of Flowers starts the program of the day, a parade in which many classes of floats contend for prizes for the best floral decoration. High schools and colleges, hotels, cities and towns, all have their floats. This year the scope of the tournament has been extended, and cities from all parts of the West are entering floats in the contest...
Militarism is not synonymous with conscription. The first is a poisonous state of mind more or less existent in all nations. The second is, of all political measures, the one best calculated to give that state of mind power and scope. I bow to the distinction...
...undergraduate sentiment has never been able to make them all alike, and it is much to be hoped that it never will. No college has all the making of its sons. We hold it to be a special distinction of Harvard, however, that it gives the fullest possible scope to the development of their individualities. That is certainly what it did to Theodore Roosevelt; and if the undergraduates of this day need any special stimulus towards taking part in perpetuating the memory of this older Harvard brother of theirs, they may well find it in the reflection that the spirit...
...drift away from the individual course as a unit in education appears in a recent action of the governing body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical...
...scope of this plan is best shown by a quotation from the Yale Alumni Weekly...