Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church must study the city as a total picture and plan accordingly," said Dr. Tyson. Primarily urban and suburban in scope, the plan will also cover the country districts. Dr. Tyson reminded the 700 conference delegates that 76% of U. S. Methodist pastors and 65% of the 8,000,000 Methodist membership are in rural charges...
...movie industry. It has found important new techniques in picture-making and storytelling. Artful and artfully artless, it is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth. It is as psychiatrically sound as a fine novel but projected with far greater scope, for instance, than Aldous Huxley was inspired to bring to his novel on the same theme. It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people...
Increased field work would be of doubtful value. The Sociology Department does have field work in one or two specialized courses which are small enough in scope to make it profitable, but it would be detrimental to take the general emphasis off of theory. Students would get speckled bits of incoherent information about a few things. They would begin to think they were authorities on matters they knew nothing about. There are too many quacks who are saving and reconstructing the world when they don't even know their ABC's. If the student wants to get first-hand experience...
...much as the Medical Schools are seeking a more general cultural background. However, as a training for work in pure science Biology is probably unexcelled. The stiff and well organized labs give you the best sort of fundamentals and the variety of subject matter a certain amount of scope. Yet if you have something very specific in mind like Sanitary Engineering it is probable that the Biology department is not the best place...
...main emphasis of the Program is on an increased and postponed study of the Social Sciences. The growth of industrial society and government intervention has enormously increased the scope of both private and public Law, and a good lawyer must of necessity be a social scientist. With this end in view the work which is now done by an undergraduate in his field of concentration will be largely shifted to his last two years of Law School, when Dean Landis feels sure he will be better equipped to handle the great and growing problems of economics and political science...