Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This may appear a trivial topic, and probably there are faults in our social system more heinous than grammatical innaccuracy or "lowbrow" talk. But the misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...
This evening at 7.15 in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House Professor Kirsopp Lake will lead the discussion group of the Graduate Schools Society. "Historical Christianity" will be the topic discussed. All members of the Graduate Schools are invited...
...specific achievements in a scholarly or literary field. These honors may be won by every imaginable form of intellectual activity: there are two for music, two for poetry, several for debating and oratory, several for scholarship in specified subjects, and many for essays, theses, or dissertations on any topic from political science to literature. The most famous and most valued of these, the Bowdoin Prizes, are awarded for dissertations on any serious subject. The Advocate and the Union, also, are both offering money rewards this year for literary efforts...
...lesson touches what has been the topic of the hour since the war and even before the war, namely, the relation of liberalism and education. Has a University the right to dismiss from its members any person who does not agree with its views, who is advancing along what he considers to be the road to mental, and sometimes physical, freedom? The author thinks it has not, and, in this case at any rate, proves her point with niceness. True, she takes an exceptionally strong example with which to work. The founders of this country, she points out, were rebels...
...talk will be "The Foreign Activities of the American Express Company". Although the lecture is intended primarily for the Foreign Trade Group, all members of the Business School and all undergraduates of the University who intend to enter the Business School or who are interested particularly in the topic of the lecture will be admitted...