Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing demand of a considerable part of the student body for instruction in the literary, artistic, and creative aspects of the drama, and the University policy of strictly theoretical training can be reconciled by a general broadening of the scope of the study in the drama. This done, Harvard may well resume its old position as one of the foremost theatrical colleges in the country...
This would place the case within the scope of the Federal Bureau. Apparently Mrs. Burgess convinced Hoover that failure of Boston police to recover her son's body from the Charles River indicated this...
...exclusively with stage design, and that there are no courses in the English Department which give exclusive instruction in playwriting. What may be done to effect a reconciliation of the University's policy of not providing manual instruction in undergraduate courses, and the growing demand for a broadening of scope in the study of the drama, will be discussed in the second of these editorials...
...College to blight young thinking," this blight taking the form of professorial pressure on students to conform on the top of the academic heirarchy, and student pressure to conform on the bottom. Such a tendency may be "observable," but the challenge that it is all embracing or universal in scope must be taken...
...Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish to William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare still...