Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...development of the student in whatever way means most to the student himself and to society. As counsellor of other institutions and as President of Harvard, he contributed greatly to the evolution of the American college into the American university; he first among American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed...
...wife (Francine Larrimore) is given ample scope for gliding sinuously from chair to chair and finally into the bed of her husband's friend, Major Bathurst (Nigel Bruce), just prior to the second act curtain. When the Major, personifying the stalwart virtues of the British Army, turns upon Miss Larrimore with a tongue-lashing for her immorality, the audience can almost imagine itself listening to the scene in Playwright Coward's Vortex wherein the son flayed his mother for her debauchery. Next year young Mr. Coward...
...more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than one type. If the younger generation is guiding the older through the maze of comedy it is doing it in a finished if unconventional manner...
...permanent organization which will act as a clearing house and give a greater continuity, clarity and force to student opinion. This want will be filed by the National Student Federation of America which meets at Anu Arbor in a fortnight to adopt a permanent constitution and extend its scope. Its projects will be discussed in detail later in this column, but its general topic for discussion. "The Student's Part in Education" sums up in one phrase the need for its existence and the essential work which it will accomplish...
...leadership of Professor Mather rallies around the flag of demonstrate truth while "religion" rallies around the standard of revealed truth at the Phillips Brooks House. And here if the efficient cause of the noise be goodwill, this particular burst of oratory will be unique in the history of "Scope's Trial" debates in this country...