Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while New England's authors, including University professors, were flocking to have their works set up on Mr. Wilson's presses, Harvard was burgeoning under the amiable dictatorship of President Eliot. By 1872, the revolutionary elective system had so widened the scope and number of course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement...
Because of these limitations on the size and scope of the collection, specialists will find little to interest them beyond the glass doors and the pink marble foyer. Lamont's collections of books on such subjects as law, business, education, agriculture, and the fine arts are purposely small. Although the percentage of books on science has risen somewhat since the opening of the library, by far the greater part of the collection falls under headings dean to the hearts of the humanities and social sciences instructors. The esoteric book has no place on Lamon's shelves. For better or worse...
...message of tremendous scope, ranging the whole field of the Federal Government's problems and responsibilities from the atom to the family's medical bill, asking Congress for legislation on more than 30 points and promising at least eight more detailed messages. It was a message that proudly enumerated substantial accomplishments and confidently outlined aims for the future...
President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton has publicly come out against the curriculum and lack of integration of the R.O.T.C. programs, deploring the limited scope covered by their courses...
...decline" on foreign civil service morale. I do not believe that this alone warrants such a far-reaching condemnation. First, Eisenhower must cope with the revision of twenty years of Democratic foreign policy which (need I mention Tehran and Yalta) did not exactly perceive the nature and scope of the Russian threat, the situation in China before and when the Communists took power, nor America's necessity for taking world leadership. Second, he must weld into a workable "party in government" a disorganized and rather motley Republican Party. This latter, not considering the work required to remedy the first...