Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corporation of Harvard College broadened the scope of the institution by establishing medical professorships. The money to finance the project was not in sight, but the officers of the college promised that complete anatomical and chemical apparatus, a proper place for dissections and chemical operations, as well as the requisite books, should be provided "as soon as there shall be sufficient, benefactions for these purposes," and that professors should be appointed "as soon as ways and means can be devised for raising sufficient sums for their encouragement." Meanwhile, the Corporation proposed to elect to the professorships. "Some gentlemen of public...
...thought concerning these matters by those whose life is most closely connected with them. Student interest in affairs of college, in the eternal verities of college life, must, to be at all effective, have purpose and direction or it is doomed to futility. The Federation hopes with a national scope, augmented by a keen interest in international college and university affairs, to make such purposiveness and such directness of approach possible. In their, attempt one can find nothing to condemn, unless he be pessimistic concerning the ability of youth to help in the solving of the problems of youth...
...women and some men. Of all U. S. parishes, his is perhaps the most conducive not only to hysteria and hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank...
...another woman might have stayed happy. But ambition for him and hatred of their poverty ate her heart. Her wit sharpened when they called on his stuffy, kindly German business friends. She had been formed for distinction, for surroundings of ease and dignity and charm. Childless, she needed scope to spend herself without stint on her friendships, for she had that concentration of affection which makes individuals of its most commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with fine people inviolate in their highest mood. Deathly poor and dying bitterly, long after her bright New York days...
...assistant secretaries of the Social Service Committee last year have resulted in this increased demand, according to Cheek. These secretaries kept in close touch with the amount of work done. The effect of this closer organization has been to increase the efficiency of the whole department and enlarge the scope of their activities...