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...Morgan Collection of Manuscripts is the only one of its kind and scope in this country; none but the great libraries and cathedral treasuries of Europe contain such splendid works, covering nearly every school of illumination, from the eighth century to the end of the Gothic...
These are the problems that face the new head. Improvement in quality is the imperative, and reduction in scope of activity of the Hygiene Department, the suggested lines of approach...
...battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope agitated the nation as none of its annual predecessors ever had before...
President Conant's move is in line with his principle of broadening the scope of learning and scholarship at Harvard and with the study of the history of science as a branch of higher learning as the result of the work of such men as Professer Thorndike at Columbia, Dr. Henderson and Dr. Sarton at Harvard. The now announcement does not reveal "the superficial character of University policy." In fact, it is even to be hoped that some day undergraduates may concentrate in the Department of the History of Science and Learning. George L. Haskins...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...