Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garrick Galties, which were started by some of the younger members of the Garrick Theatre Company for the purpose of parodying the plays which were then running in New York. The idea seemed to take with the theatre-going public, and the Gaities prospected and grow. Although the scope of the parody has broadened out to include American life in general, its favorite prey has remained the theatre. Skits on famous actors and actresses, like the disturbing domestic scene between Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine during the course of a serious drama, take-offs on popular plays, to whit. "They...
...CRIMSON reporter asked if Senator Owen had no doubts as to the ability of the students to carry out their present ambitious undertaking. He replied, "Absolutely none. Of course they will be able to acheve their present purposes and to go on from year to year increasing the scope and influence of the movement. Once it gets a good start it will have a strong tendency to be self-perpetuating...
...since the cast of "Brown at Harvard" is unusually large. E. W. Gross '27 and Edward Baur '27 explained the work in the business and stage departments. Publicity work in the former, which includes writing articles for newspapers and interviewing people prominent in the dramatic world, offers a wide scope for the ingenuity of candidates. The costuming and properties divisions of the stage department will be of particular interest in connection with this play because of the importance that the details of property and costume will have in creating the necessary atmosphere. A general meeting for business and stage candidates...
...trial that was evidently of very legalistically technical nature. They were careful to remember that juries at murder trials are called upon to exercise moral rather than intellectual discrimination. In fine, they bore in mind that Foreman Conant had flayed but one type of juridical procedure. Within that scope his comments seemed most pertinent...
...somewhat incongruous place now occupied by the A. M. degree has recently occasioned' much discussion among educators. Unlike the situation at English universities where it forms the crown of undergraduate study the master's degree has never had any definite standing among American universities. And since the widening scope of scholarship has intensified specialization, extended research work has come to be considered a necessity. Consequently the Ph.D. has superseded it as the general goal of graduate study. Because of this the master's degree has been reduced to the dubious position of a half-way house between dilletantism and scholarship...