Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly, the U. S. Ambassador was credited with having prepared the way when he was in Berlin for the security proposals which last February emanated from Germany...
...Senator Smoot, as well as Frank W. Mondell of the War Finance Corporation, called at the White House. Topic of discussions : "Plans for next year's tax reduction...
...Yale, a favorite topic was Alumnus Newell Martin, 75, and President Angell. Laboring under the impression that his alma mater had gratuitously urged him and his fellow Yale alumni to behave themselves at their reunions, Alumnus Martin had sat down and addressed to President Angell (via The New York Times) a tart letter on the subject of teaching old gentlemen party manners (TIME, June...
...follow much the same system as you employ here. There are lectures about twice a week, and some times the professor makes one of the students deliver the morning's lecture upon an as- signed topic. We do not have the great number, of tests that you have here, while our examinations cover an entire program instead of a single course. Thus a student's examinations depend upon the program he is pursuing, and if this is one of two year's duration he has no examinations until that date...
...other departments, the tutor personally guides the student less with the intention of setting formal tasks than with the hope of awakening in him a love of the subject which will lead him, through his own interest, to pursue some special topic within his general field. The tutor attempts to draw the student out, to show him the bearing of his ideas, and to discover personal points of view; and the method of personal instruction, the-socratic question and answer, is especially fruitful in philosophy and psychology, for these are discussable subjects. There is no single philosophy to be learned...