Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inquiry's program for this year is to follow somewhat different lines than that of last. Instead of limiting itself to a single topic, such as the depression, it plans to embrace a wider variety of subjects There will also be at least one meeting on the National Recovery Program, and several on different phases of domestic policy...
...discussion on abolishing the April hours examinations for Juniors and Sophomores. For some time, there has been a movement in University circles to remove the April examinations, and early action by the Council is predicted. The benefits of allowing commuting students to use the House libraries will be another topic of discussion. Phillips Brooks House is an active supporter of this plan...
...wanted to be completely liquid to qualify under the new deposit insurance system Jan. 1. Chairman Jones was deluged with advice as to how his R. F. C. could loosen its resources, break the credit deadlock. How to speed the reopening of banks frozen shut since winter was another topic of lively debate. Comptroller O'Connor reported his efforts to date. The President thought much more could be done with aggressive R. F. C. aid, in "hard" money. Secretary Wallace was wide open to suggestions to boost farm prices to new levels created by NRA. At the mention...
Third: If, therefore, cries of "House unity" are to stand in the way of fuller participation in college life by this group of students, the term deserves close scrutiny. This is a debatable topic. But it is safe to say, regarding "unity," that few, if any, men know all the members of their House. On entering the House library, or dining hall, they do not feel the sense of unity which a small summer camp or small preparatory school affords. Such unity as they will feel will come from their participation in House discussion groups, contact in the dining hall...
...algae and fungi, because they are Professor Weston's special field, but the Bryophytes and Pteridophytes also receive due attention, thus covering the whole field of Cryptogamic Botany, including an historical introduction. The lab work is correlated to the lectures, proportionate amounts of time being spent on each topic...