Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following campuses last week the following events made news: ķAt Princeton, over half the students in Elementary Astronomy cut their 8:30 o'clock class. The 40-odd who attended heard Professor Albert Einstein deliver his first lecture to U. S. undergraduates. His topic: "The Theory of Relativity...
Ideally, the now Advocate should contain a combination of undergraduate opinion regarding literature and the social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
...negative, but Murray, President of the Oxford Union Society, refused to agree to this, stating that it was a matter of principle for his team to support the affirmative. A question on censorship of news was suggested, but Harvard and Oxford coincided in choosing the negative side of this topic. When Oxford refused to undertake a split team debate. Harvard was forced to accept the negative side of the Anglo-American question...
Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of astronomy, will lead an informal, round table discussion in the Upper Common Room of the Union this evening at 7.15 o'clock, following the meeting of the science table for dinner. The topic of the discussion will be "Among Atoms and Galaxies." This will be the second of a series of round table discussions to be held every two weeks under the leadership of different members of the Department of Science...
...others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...