Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the extent of Biddle Sr.'s enterprises. When a mere youth, he conducted an exhaustive investigation into the condition of the inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. After eight years of preparation, he published a literary work on this topic in which the London Athenaeum, blind to the merits of U. S. enterprise, saw only the "naïve conceit of the compiler...
Student discussion of this topic is confined largely to private groups, and is concerned principally with the workability of religion. In the creeds presented by many preachers of the times the undergraduate finds a system, ready-made and not flexible enough to be adaptable to the work which he asks that it do. He does not care for such a system...
...avoid an enticing side issue, let me state that I never have been, and am not now, an admirer of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition is a live topic of the day and is fair subject for ridicule, as are all such matters. Some may feel that, as an inspiration of wit it is somewhat worn, but, after all, an Ivy Orator has a hard time, so we will not question his seeking humor in prohibition...
...relation borne by the religious and philanthropic work of the Phillips Brooks House to a liberal education of the individual and the mass will be treated by the speaker at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Moors has been asked to handle this phase of the topic. If he is unable to attend the conference, another man active in the field of education will deliver this address...
...front cover) Monster demonstrations for Smith along the Atlantic seaboard were the most interesting topic of the week for Democrats (see p. 13). Did those great crowds mean votes - or curiosity? Was Demos what Alexander Hamilton called it, "a great beast," or was it a thinking creature of articulate enthusiasms? Republicans also pondered the Smith ovations, both as campaign phenomena and with reference to a problem of their own. What were Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against a genuine...