Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Conference: Its Scope and Possibilities" has been selected as the topic for consideration this evening. Lawrence Higgins 1G., who was until recently connected with the Historical Section of the United States Army General Staff, will be the teacher of the forum...
...emotional experiences, the war merely intensifier those qualities which they already possessed". War, that is to say, is an impartial intensifier of what is latent in men, bringing out the good as readily as the bad. The whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid the savage. It exalts the "hard-boiled", physical courage which is by no means...
...wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages: Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish and Turkish. There are also suggestions of courses in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian. These are offered...
...scope and need of work by genuinely interested and intelligent volunteer workers was explained by Professor James Ford '05 of the Social Ethics Department, while undergraduates told of the work from different points of view...
...them. As presented Wednesday night, "Getting Married" promises to be one of the best plays of the season, both from the acting and the entertaining stand-points. Especially pleasing was the work of Mr. Joy as the Bishop of Chelsea: we hope that his versatility will be given full scope this season. Mr. Clive can always be counted upon and did not fail this time. Miss Doyle handled an "emotional" part with praiseworthy firmness, resisting all temptation to rant. The rest of the cast were equally satisfactory. We hope that "Getting Married" will continue to run for more than...