Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...influence of the universities on modern literature--that is the subject of a trenchant and suggestive article in the current Nation. The immediate source for the topic was the Yale Alumni Weekly's recent plea for "honest criticism" from faculty members, that being, according to the Weekly, "the only cure" for the innumerable "sloppy and maudlin" books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English...
...Ingersoll Lecture will be given this year by Dr. E. W. Lyman, theologian, author, and lecturer, it was announced last night in a statement to the CRIMSON. The topic of the address will be "The Immortality of Man". It will be given the latter part of April in Emerson Hall...
...topic of the lecture will be "The Ordeal of Changing One's Religion", Dr. Browne who has lived in this country for many years is of English birth...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
...disadvantage of being a Congressman is that you have to talk about one topic for months, years. On trains back to Washington last week, Congressmen were still talking, after a decade of it, about farm relief. Politically if not economically, something-must-be-done...