Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alvin Johnson, of New York's New School for Social Research, has been the first great educator to submit comment on the Report. While slyly taking exception to the rich mixture of simile found in the book, he praised its wisdom, its comprehensive scope, and its readability...
...gradual change . . . in the whole character of the high school and its function toward American society." Where the early high school trained men who would go on to college, trained them in the staples of composition and mathematics, Virgil and Xenophon, the modern high school's function and scope are broader...
...Committee is not in doubt as to what is needed: "The hope of the American school system, indeed of our society, is precisely that it can pursue two goals simultaneously: give scope to ability and raise the average. Nor are these two goals so far apart, if human beings are capable of common sympathies...
...funds which were afforded them, have gone further than compromise. They have found a new educational theory, to provide a "substantial intellectual experience common to all Harvard students." They have defined two varieties of learning, distinguishing General Education from Special "not so much by subject matter as by scope and outlook." and they have determined to give every Harvard student adequate training in both varieties
Japan groped for a way to meet total disaster. In a "personal message," broadcast by Radio Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito told his people that they faced a crisis "unprecedented in scope in our national history...