Word: scope
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...member of the United States cabinet stated recently that, in his opinion, Harvard alone, of all the American colleges, could lay true claim to the title of university. No doubt excellent grounds for such an assertion are to be found in the wide scope of the University's curriculum and in its national character, as shown in the fact, for example, that men from 144 different colleges are attending the Law School. Both these phases are well known. Not so commonly realized, however, is an equally conclusive evidence derived from the number of men holding University degrees...
...scenery department of the Workshop has been reorganized and is now in the hands of men, interested in stage experimentation, who can give as much of their time as is needed towards extending the scope of the department. The first problem of staging is now being worked out and in co-operation with Mr. T. P. Robinson, of Derby and Robinson, architects, the scenery department will devise the four sets of the first production from one large combination set. By lighting, different color schemes of hangings, portieres, etc., the difference between the sets will be emphasized. This is an elaboration...
During the agitation which has been going on recently in favor of a better army and navy and for the purpose of widening the scope and field of usefulness of the summer military camps, it has been amusing to note the stand which the CRIMSON has taken. The CRIMSON is no doubt a great factor in shaping the ideas and raising the ideals of the unthinking undergraduate, but it is a question as to whether every undergraduate holds this same view. We feel that each individual has ideas of his own upon the subject, and that, on the whole, they...
...most prominent of these two forces lies in the breadth of scope shown by the work of Phillips Brooks House. Whatever falls naturally upon the shoulders of no one, it has assumed as its own burden. From finding roommates for Freshmen, to determining the cost of living for graduates; from encouraging attendance at chapel, to organizing boys' clubs; it has sought primarily to be of service. Thus, in one way or another, it has reached every member of the University and has compelled him to admit its usefulness...
...Hill pointed out that, although the consolidation of various professions had narrowed the old scope of the lawyer, yet the increasing complexity of society has opened up for him a multitude of new fields. "There is hardly a branch of human activity which is not touched by the law," said...