Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard University Debate Council emerged with a decisive victory in the Annual Tufts Invitational Debate Tournament Saturday. The Cambridge contingent argued the affirmative side of this year's topic, "Resolved: That the United States should adopt a program of compusory health insurance for all citizens...
...more than willing to offer a complete explanation for the absence of an Israeli on the evening panels during 20th Century Week. The Program sub-committee devoted better than four months to the selection of invitees. They consulted at length with faculty members acquainted with the four topic areas: Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The choices made for the Middle East were made with the advice and assistance of staff members at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The general criterion used in making the selections for the panels was the extent to which the individual...
Newsmen languidly covering President Eisenhower's vacation at Augusta, Ga. suddenly perked up last week when Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates flew in from Washington for a 2½-hour huddle with their boss. Pressing topic: the U.S.'s nagging deficit in international payments and the resulting drain on U.S. gold reserves, eroding international confidence in the soundness of the dollar...
Behind the preponderance of already-tutored undergraduates are two significant facts about the membership of an average seminar. First, 60 per cent of the regular participants are Honors candidates. Second, a majority of the students in a given group are concentrating in a field related to the seminar's topic. Also, most of the seminars are in the Humanities or Social Sciences, and virtually every department in these areas tutors its Honors concentrators...
...Education, who defines elegance as "mental efficiency," points out that "most students need to work to think. The difficulty here is that there's no work to do." The three students in the seminar may well find themselves assigned to write a line of poetry on either of the topic concepts as an eventual piece of preparation. The group so far has confined its investigations to poetry and other art forms...