Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
Next Saturday, in the Copley Plaza, the Foreign Policy Association will hold its first discussion of the season. A luncheon will precede the formal talks of the afternoon, which are scheduled to begin at 1.35. Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law and William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government will discuss "Advances and Setbacks...
Oxford, not yet having received the telegram sent two days ago by Frederick DcW. Bolman '35, president of the Harvard group, which suggested a split team debate on the question of censorship of the press, cabled that they would like to discuss the merits of the proposal that biography should "reveal feet of clay...
Baltimore reporters who rarely get a chance to interview Great Men on their Johns Hopkins sickbeds greedily scribbled their notes. Senor Quezon went on to discuss his experiences with urologists: "When I left Manila, the doctors told me I could drink nothing intoxicating. When I reached Java I saw a doctor, and he said 'a glass of beer would not hurt.' So I drank beer from Java to Paris. In Paris another doctor said: 'You should not drink beer; wine is the only thing.' So I changed gratefully to white wine. Then a French specialist told me: 'You should drink...
Increasing cooperation between the various Houses was evidenced last night as the chairmen of the respective committees met in Lowell to discuss the question of House athletic regulation. This is the second meeting held; the first occurring a month ago when the new plan for House Squash was evolved...