Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual, self-censoring move by a student group the Harvard Law School Forum canceled a scheduled April debate featuring the left-wing novelist Howard Fast. The Forum topic, "Communism in Hollywood," was changed to "Limitations on Free Expression." Fast finally spoke at Harvard, under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Union, but only after Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 had denounced student timidity in a letter to the Crimson, undergraduate newspaper...
While the debaters were arguing yesterday, the Senate passed a bill deeding tidelands to individual states. The Coolidge topic, however, is an academic one and will be argued again Friday night when the negative team meets Yale in the Lamont Forum Room. The affirmative team goes to Princeton Friday for a second debate on the same subject...
Sunday Hunch. In South Bend, Ind., after announcing that his sermon topic for the following Sunday would be "Who Was the Criminal?", the Rev. Erwin Gaede retired to his study, found that $48 had been stolen...
...freshman debating teams will discuss opposite sides of the topic, "Resolved: That Congress Should Refrain from Investigating Communism in Schools and Colleges," here and at Princeton tonight...
Robert Neville, new chief of TIME'S Rome Bureau, was in the U.S. recently on a stopover from his previous assignment in Hong Kong. At lunch one day, the conversation got around to a favorite topic of all foreign correspondents: the housing and moving problems overseas...