Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debates will be conducted informally, and do not necessarily have to be on serious subjects. Any topic of interest to members of the University, or question of wide concern will be acceptable. The inter-house debates will be confined to men who are not on the Varsity debating squad...
...bewildered by this year-long shower of ideological bonbons is the college man, who of all people should be attempting to view the situation with practical and theoretical clearness. To help him do this, New York University has begun a course of lectures, given once a week, on some topic of world economics, politics, or social problems...
...Hitler and Fascism" will be the topic of Dr. Goldschmidt at the meeting in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock Thursday. Goldschmidt, who once taught at the University of Leipzig, has been lecturing at the University of Mexico for the past three years, but is now attempting to organize a University League against Fascism...
...former years, the Inquiry plans to remain a non-partisan organization, with wide ranges of opinion represented on its governing boards. As an organization, it refrains from taking a definite stand on any topic, but it receives at its open forums both liberal and conservative, radical and reactionary...
Although in part a concession to the dilettante, this widening of scope will now make possible a more spontaneous lecture program. No longer restricted to one topic, the Inquiry will be free to sponsor timely discussions on whatever subject may be foremost at the moment. Dogmatic purpose, as well as the tub thumping and inane resolutions of an excessively liberal minority, are steadily to be avoided. If the Inquiry, having found concentration too difficult, does indeed prove able to maintain the promised attitude of rational impartiality toward world affairs, its unbiased forum will serve a definite need in the University...