Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. The subject upon which he will speak is "Education and Harvard College". In connection with this lecture the members of the course will be required to read Emerson's essay on the American scholar and finally to write a theme dealing with the subject treated in both the lecture and the reading...
...weeks of breakfast at which boiled eggs have alternated with boiled eggs on the daily menu, the Freshmen in that dormitory have risen in wrath. During luncheon yesterday some doughty leader of the crusade tacked on the bulletin board at the door of the dining hall a piece of theme paper with the following legend. "We, the undersigned, desire some other main dish for breakfast than eggs...
Representative Britten, who, like most of Congress, has just returned from an "investigation" of Europe, has much to say on a theme whose interest never fails--menus. His report may also throw some light on part of a hitherto obscure and much maligned matter of college policy, the wherefore of the French and German reading examinations...
...depends a little too much on mechanical tricks for its humor-but the highlights are high enough when they come, to ensure a pleasant evening for almost anyone. The three ages concerned are the Stone Age, the days of the Roman Empire, and the present; the theme: that love is the same no matter in what century you meet...
...question of whether the clock was turned back an hour on Saturday night or on Sunday morning might well furnish the theme for a hot debate. It is much the same problem as that in the old Greek dilemna of the lawyer and his prentice. But waiving this point, it is probable that nobody felt the effect of the turning except in a fresher sensation when he waked. Another unnoticed effect there was also. The quitting of Daylight Saving Time has put a period to the summer. No longer can one pretend merrily that 12 o'clock...