Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the present system, your column is merely the expression of the ideas of a very small group, and but slightly expresses the prevalent opinions of the University. As a result, the scope of the CRIMSON is narrowed and no one derives any great benefit from reading what is printed. If you should exclude all but the comments of the University at large, not only would more people find interest in the editorial column, but Harvard would be provided with a true criterion of undergraduate thought. A. W. Baldwin...
...Society for Contemporary Art presents the work of the School of Paris from 1910 to 1928. This collection includes painting, sculpture and examples of the decorative arts. The paintings are a logical supplement to the loan exhibition of French Painting now on display at the Fogg Art Museum. In scope the former ranges from comparatively conservative to ultra-modern...
...considerable material which otherwise might not have seen print and would have been lost to large circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed...
...respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with...
...first place, there was no effective machinery to enforce the observance of the clauses written into the treaties, and in the second place the larger powers, like Austria-Hungary and Russia, had themselves large minorities which were beyond the scope of international interference. In so far as these minorities belonged racially to other independent states they became the objects of irredentist agitations, that is to say efforts were made to arouse in them a national consciousness and to prepare them for eventual annexation to the mother country. In most instances the larger powers replied to these tactics by various measures...