Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Examinations, unforunately, too often become opportunities for the spewing out of hastily-organized and impermanent knowledge. But the new regime, too, has its weaknesses. It is conceivable that a student will do none of the course reading until he finds out what the paper topic is and then read only what he considers necessary for the paper. Thus the methodical, diligent student would be penalized and the crafty fraud unjustly rewarded. But professors who make sure that the topics they assign are broad enough to require completion of a majority of the required reading can insure that academic virtue...
...Topic Undecided...
...spokesman for the U.N. Council said Truman had suggested as the topic for his speech, "The Presidency and the Constitution," which is also the topic for a series of lectures Truman has agreed to give at Columbia University. However the spokesman expressed the opinion that Truman might be persuaded to give a lecture on a topic of "a more international nature, one more in line with this particular lectureship...
...main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...
...topic was "Resolved: That the future development of nuclear weapons should be prohibited by international agreement." HFDC failed to place in the tournament...