Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That at the end of their Senior year they be required to take a general oral examination covering the field of concentration with special reference to that portion of the held in which their thesis topic falls...
...That students who pass successfully the Junior generals be required in their Senior year to do intensive study and research under the guidance of the tutors upon some topic which they be restricted field upon which they be required to write a thesis, the standard of which should be higher than the standard now set for distinction theses...
...American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
This privation is the fruit of faulty reading assignment. Too often smudged excerpts from many and sundry volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...
Professor George Howard Parker '87 will give the second lecture in the Second series of Lectures on Religion sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House. Professor Parker's topic tomorrow will be "The Influence of Evolution on Religion...