Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of their height; but yesterday, at President Eliot's lecture, many of those present would have been glad to add a cubit to their stature, in order to see over the crowd that packed Peabody Hall. "Joy in Work," with Dr. Eliot as the speaker, is a fertile topic, and those who wedged their way in, as well as those who crowded the stairway outside, were rewarded for their attention...
Finally, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced an advance of its rediscount rates from 4 to 4½%. This occurrence provided a live topic of conversation both in Wall and Lombard Streets. Certain features attending it, because of their fundamental connection with the future course of American business, deserve close attention...
Talk of doing away with compulsory attendance of classes is a source of current speculation, and a topic likely to be heard more frequently as time goes on. Meanwhile, an interesting sidelight on its possibilities is to be seen in the number of non-course lectures being given in the University in the afternoons and evenings, and the undergraduate attendance at them...
...special topic of Dr. Rostovtzeff's address today will be "The Country, Agriculture and Landholding...
...chief topic to be taken up at today's meeting will probably be to decide upon the date when the Harvard and Yale athletes will leave for England and to make definite arrangements for the trip itself. The question of the date of the meet, tentatively agreed upon for July 14 or 21, will probably be left undecided...