Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial candidates have daily training in writing editorials on any interesting current topic, and of expressing their own ideas on the subject. This competition is open to Juniors only, and this is the final opportunity for Juniors to make the CRIMSON...
Mathematics 5a, given by Dr. Brinkmann, is a more or less thorough survey of a number of topics in calculus and analytic geometry, which are not studied in Mathematics 2 and are needed for Mathematics 13. Each topic is very easy at the beginning and very hard at the end of its being taken up. But the topics are interesting though the course as a whole is not easy and its purpose prevents it from being unified. The lectures are interesting and clear; the textbook is patronising...
...more than a pamphlet, The Mentor. In the group were such specialists as the late great Luther Burbank (plants), Augustus Thomas (plays), Daniel Carter Beard (outdoor life), Roger M. Babson (figures), Fritz Kreisler (music). Like its organizers, The Mentor itself was a specialist, devoted each issue to a single topic...
Starting with the next (September) issue, The Mentor will no longer have a theme-subject. Instead there will be articles on many a different topic, by such authors as Walter Davenport, W. E. Woodward, Margaret Widdemer, Will Durant. There will be seven four-color pages in place of rotogravure; a cover in the "modern manner"; a history of tennis by William Tatem Tilden, 2nd; a history of dog fashions by Albert Payson Terhune...
...entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels to his Lake Placid log cabin...