Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sugarbush (Doris Day & Frankie Laine; Columbia). South African sweet-talk about Pop Topic A. Pleasant enough to become a bestseller...
...Debate Council's negative team will oppose an affirmative group from Princeton in the first H-Y-P triangular debate today at 8 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room. The College debaters are Frank A. Olson '53, Lester K. Ward '52, and Samuel E. Karff '52. The topic is Resolved: That the Democratic Administration be Retained...
...method was to break the language down into six main classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
College debaters compete at 1 p.m. to day in the Lamont Forum Room for the Coolidge Prize. The topic is: Resolved. That the Democratic Administration should be retained...
...public school machinery. But the logic in suggesting that the absence of one philosophy necessarily means the presence of another escapes us. In fact, it would be a great surprise to find that secondary education, which after all deals with elementary subjects, deals with so large and advanced a topic as philosophy of life at all. One can teach English, Mathematics, Languages, History and so on without encouraging either materialism or religion, and this is the way these subjects art usually taught. Philosophy is left where is should be, with the individual, his home, and his voluntary associations...