Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Ambassador to Turkey, promises to be one of the most important discussions of the year. Formerly Vice-Chairman of the Near-East Relief Commission, and director of the Allied relations at Constantinople during the past war, he comes with the most intimate knowledge of the Balkan problems. His topic, "The Near Eastern Question", is one on which he is thus eminently qualified to speak; it is of immediate interest because of the present conflict between Greece and Turkey...
...Paris that the preliminaries for the third oratorical contest in the University under the auspices of the Society will be held on April 14 in Sever 11 at 8.00 P. M. The annual contests are for a medal offered during the spring for the best speech on some assigned topic to be delivered in French. This year candidates will be expected to give a five-minute speech on some subject connected with French civilization...
...John Heard Jr. '12 will speak on "Whaling Off the North Coast of Alaska", a topic the material of which was drawn from personal experience, at a meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club in the Harvard Club of Boston at 8 o'clock tonight. All members of the University are invited to attend...
Definite arrangements for Samuel Gompers' speech at the Union on Thursday have just been announced by the Liberal Club of the University, under whose auspices Mr. Gompers is to speak. He will take as his topic. "The Case for the Closed Shop", presenting labor's point of view on this question of national interest Mr. Gompers has taken a very positive stand in regard to the subject of the open and closed shop, offering strenuous opposition to the proponents of the open shop system, who have been so active of late...
...Student Liberal Club of the University will hold its first meeting of the second semester in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7.30 this evening. "Education at Harvard" with special reference to the proposed Oxford tutorial system will be the topic on which Professor R. K. Hack will speak and which will be thrown open to general discussion during the latter part of the evening. The amount of publicity both favorable and adverse that the tutorial system has recently received and the extensive criticism of educational methods in the United States, has made the topic one of sufficient interest...