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...repeated affirmation ..." declared Portugal, ''of the principles advocated by the Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...
...less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad...
...plan signifies more than that. It strengthens the life of the college by filling the intellectual cauldron with more and varied victuals, grown by fresh environments with whose habits and ideas Harvard has had silght contact. It increases the scope of service which Harvard strives to render the country. Best of all, when the ultimate goal is reached, the scholarships will tend to develop the idea of American civilization, another of the President's pets, defined practically in the American History course started last summer for both interested students and the general public. This idea has as its purpose...
...second basic purpose was to establish UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS, to reinforce teaching and research by affording broader opportunities to teachers and scholars of unusual scope and ability who are working on the frontier of knowledge. These are the so-called "roving professorships," without Departmental connection...
...ultimate future of the National Scholarship Plan's scope, few are so sanguine as to predict. Made possible largely by the generosity of those who contributed to the 300th Anniversary Fund, its spread must depend on such continued generosity