Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rejected the modern world as totally un-Christian. He earns his living by farming and carpentering. His services, labor and speaking, he gives free of charge, asking only subsistence while seeking to live the ideal Christian life as he sees it. His manner of life will be the topic of his address...
...help him understand it, Under the pressure of required courses it can hardly be expected that he will do preliminary reading on the subject. There, I think that the tutorial reading of students interested in the lectures might be chosen to given them a better understanding of the topic under consideration...
Gortrude Stein will probably explain why she has submitted the English language to such uneasy nightmares when she speaks before the Signet Society at eight o'clock this evening at its clubhouse, 46 Dunster Street. Her topic will be "Grammar and Poetry...
Writers, who feel that they must find a new medium for their ideas, will be offered their chance when Gertrude Stein speaks before the Signet Society on Monday evening at eight o'clock in the Clubhouse on Dunster Street. For her topic, she has chosen. "Grammar and Poetry," or was it "Grammar is Poetry, Poetry, Grammar Grammar...
...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...