Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase in quantity in students may not be equaled by a similar increase in the quality of instructors, but those men who are fortunate enough to be recognized as great teachers and whose influence transcends that of the subject in which they specialize, should be allowed a larger scope for their efforts. Never before has the necessity of great personalities been so vital; formalism--the octopus of the modern university--must be crushed, and its most deadly enemy is the man whose individuality can cope with its enormity...
...Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations...
...programs range from rhapsody or movements from a symphony to waltzes marches, a sugary trifle, or the operetta of the hour. The scope is broad and appeals to an extensive public...
...emphasizing the latter point Professor Frankfurter has done a service to the public and to the cause of the administration of justice. People in general naturally have so little knowledge of the details of legal practice that they are apt to misunderstand the scope of a court's power and consequently the effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally...
Naturally, a book of this scope has its deficiencies. For example, though containing an estimate of Henry Adams's historical philosophy, the equally significant work of Brooks on Adams is neglected. One feels a lack of understanding in the author's treatment of Poe, and also a hint of the unpractical--despite his appreciation of genuine scientific achievement--in his dismissal of Upton Sinclair's "Industrial Republic" as too utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great...