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...speaking-- its absorption by the English department--is in reality a further recognition of its value and necessity. Formerly a group of independent courses, only one of which counted to-ward a degree, it has been drawn into its proper place beside the courses in written composition and its scope has been greatly extended. The change means, not a lessening of training in so important a feature of the life of today, but rather a decided advancement, and a beneficial association with related courses on English composition...
...minor athletics in Harvard is comprehensive, but fails to give any impulse toward the connection of minor sports with the movement for increased numbers of participants in regular physical recreation. It might well have mentioned the recent class in general athletics for Freshmen as a step toward increasing the scope of athletic influences...
With the constantly increasing scope of the power of the mechanism of civilization, direct government becomes as essential to democracy as universal suffrage. Both are necessary to a fundamentally ethical conception of the organization and exercise of political power as contrasted with one whose chief offsets are safety or immediate efficiency. The rule, however, works both ways. On the one hand, the adoption of the machinery of direct government finds its best justification in the fact that the modern state has to undertake a program of social amelioration, and has to assume for that purpose peculiarly serious responsibilities and call...
...inquiry carried on by the Board for a period of a year was tremendous in its scope, and invaluable to the City of New York for the future development of its educational system. In New York, there are 600,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools, and 18,000 people engaged in the problem of educating them. Consequently, an inquiry into the educational system would be of immense import...
...earlier time have been retained and combined with the more distinctive qualities of the modern organ. Those who have been in charge of the work of installing the new instrument declare that the aim of furnishing Appleton Chapel with an instrument worthy of its environment broad in scope and varied in resource has been fully realized...