Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further advances, for progress which has waited only upon the establishment of that fact. Since the new system and that alone, for courses have changed but little, is responsible for this highly desirable stimulation of undergraduate study, the time has come for more serious efforts to broaden its scope. The first of these ought to be directed toward a radical reduction in course requirements...
...reject a Cabinet appointment not only on the ground of fitness (as in Mr. Warren's case), but on any ground whatever. A Democratic Senate might insist that a Republican President appoint only Democrats to his Cabinet and vice versa. That is an extreme supposition, but entirely within the scope of possibilities as laid down by the Constitution...
Several essays have already been received and the scope of the various University affairs which they consider is quite as wide as the subject promised. There are many aspects of the University open to extension and the need for new additions to the physical and the traditional limits of the University is great. The awakened criticism, constructive and destructive, of the undergraduates should be as great...
...Ninetieth Birthday of Charles William Eliot" is being published today by the University Press. Intended as an enduring record of that memorable occasion, a year ago today, it is as complete as could be possible within the scope of about 300 pages. A record of the complete proceedings of that day, together with every tribute that was printed throughout the world, would form an almost unlimited amount of material, and hence the book has been limited to the recording of only those tributes most intimately connected with the University...
...only feeble glints of starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...