Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it has undeniably felt this drain, Phillips Brooks House has yet passed a most creditable year. The Social Service Committee and the Deputation Committee have been, as examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself...
...advantages of the rotating policy are not negligible. The emphasis on football is cut down by reducing the number of so-called "objective games"; Harvard's football schedule may be made more national in scope; and Harvard men in distant parts of the country may be favored with an occasional glimpse of their team without a long journey to Cambridge...
Under the old system, Harvard, playing an eight-game season, had three dates, most of them early in the season, which were not regularly assigned. These, it would seem, allowed sufficient scope for the gaining of all the advantages offered under the rotating plan, except that late season games with redoubted foes were difficult to arrange. Still, nowadays, with a tendency to eliminate the "soft spots" from the gridiron campaign, the order in which the Crimson takes on its opponents is of less importance...
...general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more...
...collection, unusually large in its scope, extends from 1780 until 1820, and is drawn from the bills of the Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket theatres. Before the playbill for March 10, 1788, for the presentation of Macbeth, is a long notice for the Morning Post apparently in the handwriting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was at this time lessee of the Drury Lane theatre...