Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account will we agree to discuss the reunification of Germany." Khrushchev trumpeted. "Let the Germans themselves sit at a round table and solve this problem." Scornfully, he pooh-poohed the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference on Germany proposed by the West-Gromyko would be too busy. Added Khrushchev: "It is well known that when people want to shelve a problem, it is drowned in endless verbiage from which, as from a swampy marsh, there is no exit." If the West really wanted a solution, it would have to agree to a summit conference, whose subject matter would be limited...
Leading officers of the National Student Association will meet tonight with the Student Council and interested undergraduates to discuss the changes in NSA procedures brought about by Harvard's withdrawal and also the future course of the College's relations with that organization...
Member clubs of the committee include the U.N. Council, World Federalists, Committee to Study Disarmament, Liberal Union, Freedom Council, and Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Representatives from the six organizations will meet bi-weekly to co-ordinate plans for speakers and to discuss common problems...
...such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...optional fourth semester might continue into more advanced physics, explore as much as possible of quantum theory and relativity, and discuss "philosophic implications" more thoroughly. On the other hand, if a student proved extremely allergic to science after two semesters in the program, perhaps some outlet by petitioning to drop the third semester could be provided...