Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duties the fact, for instance, that from 1918 to 1921 six leading American universities were the recipients of 138,000,000 dollars. During the past century the six leading English Universities have been donated 30,000,000 dollars (6,000,000 pounds). The tremendous increase in the number and scope of schools of higher education during the past two decades has made necessary college presidents who could find the funds necessary to the growth of their institutions...
Wage-earners both in these United States and elsewhere believe Mr. Forbes will have to widen the scope of his magazine and enlarge his economic philosophy before he can secure their subscriptions in any large number...
...Phillips Brooks House Association is sending 11 men to represent the University at the National Student Conference which will be held at Milwaukee from December 28, to January 1. The conference, national in scope, is being sponsored by the Young Mens' and the Young Womens' Christian Associations all over the country, in an effort to solve the problems pertinent to all universities, more promptly and adequately...
...Harvard Law Library has no equal in breadth of scope in the world, its only possible rival, the Congressional Library, having a less complete collection of books of Anglo-American, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, German and South American law. It is expected that the Endowment Fund Drive recently launched by Dean Roscoe Pound will permit yet more expansion and specialization within the Library...
...have so well deserved the honors that they have received. As a university president, he probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also...