Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these discussion groups whose object is to stimulate discussion of current topics under intelligent leadership, met on Tuesday night in the Noble room of Phillips Brooks House with the Rev. A. O. Phinney of Trinity Church as leader. The topic chosen for discussion on the following Tuesday dealt with the efficiency of Christianity in solving present economic problems...
...week parry to underlie a course of intensive preparation for college life. From Wednesday until the succeeding Tuesday, there men received physical and psychological tests to examine their fitness and listened to lectures on duties note taking, use of the library, college customs and every conceivable college topic. But the week was not all work and no play. There were smoker receptions, visits at the homes of various professors, even a picnic and track meet. The grand finale was a mass meeting of the class for or organization and the election of officers...
Foreign dispatches in yesterday mornings papers gave a new twist to the plans now under way for the debate with the Oxford team in Symphony Hall on October 8. Although later developments may bring the Ruhr question down from the shelf again, it is considered doubtful whether this topic can now be regarded as anything more than history...
...main topic of discussion at the International Surgical Congress just closed at Amsterdam, Netherlands, was rehabilitation of war and industrial cripples. It was the first congress since the war to include representatives of both the Allied and Central powers. The American delegate was Col. Fred H. Albee, professor of orthopedic surgery at the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York, who lectured on bone grafting...
Private monopoly is its chief topic. Says the blurb: " Month by month we shall present some phase of GOVERNMENT BY PRIVATE MONOPLY. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' (Signed) Robert M. La Follette...