Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various topic headings he considers are the Associated Press, the United Press, the chain daily, standardization of the daily, the conditions in Philadelphia, what is wrong with the "World" (R. I. P.), the copper trust monopoly of newspapers in Montana, and the opportunity in the press of the small cities. His article on the now lamented "World" is particularly of timely interest and presents fairly clearly a number of the problems which the younger Pulitzers found themselves unable to solve...
...subjects, "Resolved, That the United States should adhere to the World Court under the terms of the Root protocol", is a topic which is arousing considerable interest throughout the country at the present time. As a resolution to this effect has already been submitted to President Hoover by the United States Senate, where it will be actively discussed before long the arguments used in the debate will serve as an indication of the lines along which the discussion will probably be conducted in the Senate...
...meeting will be limited strictly to one hour, in which the leader will present the topic and then discuss it with the students, finishing the meeting with a general summary at the close of the period...
...subject of the conference, "Political Corruption," which was chosen by the association committee after a discussion of college needs, has been narrowed to the theme of "special Privileges versus General Welfare" in the relation of business and government. This topic, in turn, will be studied only from the point of view of public utilities and municipal politics. Among the speakers will be the Honorable W. S. Youngman '95, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, D. E. Hall, the special Attorney General for the Garrett investigation, and Dr. H. W. Laidler, Executive Secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...generalizations and the restraint in the description of personal events combine in such a manner as to remove both false humility and wearing trivia, qualities often consequent in accounts of this type. Naturally, his tracing of the rise of the department of Philosophy at Harvard is the most interesting topic handled. The change of system from one consisting of a minister who made occasional ventures into speculative ethics and morals, even at its best not separated from theology, to a group of active thinkers, both metaphysical and ethical, who violently disagreed in their theories of knowledge, yet were the best...