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LORD DESBOROUGH, replying for the Home Secretary: "The bill clearly defined the word "animal' as including birds, reptiles and fish. I regret that fleas do not come within the scope of the bill...
...Swifter to change than the customs is the scope of U. S. Education. In 1900, about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
This section of the Report is most suggestive of a new approach to the problem of the causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar...
...recent years the Album has expanded enormously. This is partly due to the steady growth in class enrolment, and partly to a gradual enlargement of the volume's scope. To compass the material about the class of 1925 it has taken exactly twenty pages more than were needed for the 1922 Album...
...from the French of Felix Gendera, was chiefly valuable for its reintroduction of Lila Lee to the speaking stage. She used to be a child actress and spoke her various pieces from many a vaudeville rostrum. Then came long years in the cinema and now the real ambition given scope. Unfortunately, the scope is somewhat limited, due to the ineptitude and the immodesty of the material in hand. It came from France and did not wait long to submit its witticisms to inspection. The general impression was that these witticisms could not stand the shift of language. They sounded heavy...