Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to inform more students about RUS, Peimer said she plans to organize more events. Peimer also proposed broadening the scope of RUS activities by offering members opportunities to do public service...
Second, public displays should be reflective of the goal of sharing and educating. That means limiting their scope. Though having a tree in the dining hall may be a perfectly appropriate way for Christians to share the beauty of Christmas, there is no need for evergreens to be draped over every banister leading up to the Quincy House dining hall. Anything beyond a humble, tasteful display is simply religious chest beating...
...last change to the original language of the committee proposal involved changing the charge from enveloping programs "authorized" by the FAS to programs "managed" by the FAS. Skocpol raised questions about the scope of the committee under the new language...
Even more speculative are scientists' attempts to address the flip side of the Cambrian mystery: why this evolutionary burst, so stunning in speed and scope, has never been equaled. With just one possible exception - the Bryozoa, whose first traces turn up shortly after the Cambrian - there is no record of new phyla emerging later on, not even in the wake of the mass extinction that occurred 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period...
...many universities, a switch to distribution requirements, is ideal. For in allowing the student to select any course from generalized topic areas, such requirements not only allow for students to become a "company of educated men and women," but also respect the student's ability to determine the scope of his Harvard education. In the least, the faculty must expand Core subject areas to include more of the generalized course offerings whose subject matter relates to the program areas...