Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard should begin this cycle of improvement may puzzle many. But some place must. After all, there will always be enough colleges with standards adjusted to moderate abilities. At present, there are few, if any which allow sufficient scope to unusual ability. No particular glory attaches either to the one kind of university or to the other And as it happens, no changes have yet been made which severely tax the moderately capable at Harvard. But if some change is to be made, if there is to be progress in any one direction, that direction, according to every tradition...
This meeting is being organized by the Student Citizenship Association which recently held a conference in Boston. The Washington Assembly, however, will be wider in scope, and the discussion will be confined to the extent of the violation of the Volstead Act and the methods of stimulating in colleges a distinct sentiment against such lawlessness...
Morocco is the only place where M. Sarraut's activities will have free scope. He waits till M. Lyautey ends his colonial career, either of his own free will or by pressure. The French Government has found that, so far, the smallest hint of M. Lyautey's replacement is received with strong protests...
...same time, there is every reason to believe that a few more wars, of the scope of the World War and future wars can scarcely help becoming world wars--will work the destruction of Western civilization. If this is to be accounted worth saving, the problem is clearly to prevent wars not merely to prosecute them skilfully after they have begun. And for this purpose it will be necessary to convince the world--or a dominating majority, of the futility, the horror of modern war. In other words, the solution of the problem lies in so forming public opinion that...
...wealthy London family provide the opportunity to waggle head and pen reprovingly. The father, a distinguished lawyer, is a solid stratum of old-fashioned notions. His wife is also old-fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...