Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delegates to a regional conference of Collegiate Councils for the United Nations participated in a mock United Nations General Assembly in Seven Sunday afternoon. Each delegate represented a particular country, and the main topic discussed was a "Soviet" resolution favoring admittance of 14 new countries to the U.N., nine from the West and four from the pro-Soviet bloe...
Arguing for the affirmative on the topic, Resolved: That all American citizens should be subject to conscription for essential service in time of war were Francis Keaney and Calvin Johnson of Norfolk. Taking the negative for the Harvard Debate Council were Robert B. Ullian '54 and Jay R. Nussbaum...
...said one of Reicken's tutees did "strictly mechanical work" on a project last term in tutorial and received an A grade for it, and that the project topic is now being "parcelled out" to several seniors for their theses. He claimed such practices were unfair to students in other departments who are required to contribute what he termed "original and creative ideas" for their honors essays...
...Banking and Finance Abroad," the third topic, will be presented by H. Harold Whitman, vice-president of the City Bank of New York. He is in charge of the Overseas Division of the Foreign Advisory Services...
...increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...