Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questionnaire asks two questions mainly, the recipients thesis topic, and topics in which he has special interest outside of his field of research. The responses which have so far been received have answered these questions fully and enthusiastically. The Graduate School Society will start on the work of organizing the discussion groups within the next week...
...Harvard tutorial system, which during its few years of existence has become the most widely discussed of University institutions, has once more become the subject of a treatise. "Problems of the Tutor" is the topic upon which Dr. Raphael Demos '16, Instructor in the department of Philosophy, has written an article in the latest number of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Dr. Demos is himself a tutor and his comments on the advantages and disadvantages of the system are made from an authoritative position...
...subject announced by Dr. Straton for his annual Jeremiad at Phillips Brooks House tonight bears no less formidable a title than "The Battle Over the Bible". To those who still keep the flavor of their Gaelic ancestry this may seem a delightful topic for a clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain...
Isostasy (theory of the maintenance of the equilibrium of the spinning world) was a major topic among the 2,000 members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Southampton, England, last week. So also was parthenogenesis- female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) -it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official publication of what had been said...
Outside afterwards he was cornered by reporters and asked what he had learned. But the Texan, lean of face was lean of words on the topic. He talked a little though. He recalled the day several summers before when he had drawn the first draft of the Leauge of Nations Covenant at Magnolia under the direction of his good friend Woodrow Wilson. He said that eventually the U.S would have to become an "associate member" of the Leauge and adhere to the World court. He hoped that the League question would never more be dragged through the arena...