Word: topic
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Julius A. Stratton, chairman of the board of the Ford Foundation and former president of M.I.T., will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell JCR. The topic is "The University and the New World...
...infallibility of the Bible. For administrators of Southern Baptist colleges and hospitals, the ready availability of federal grants and loans is a tempting answer to the pressing need for expanded facilities. At the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist state conventions last month, federal aid was unquestionably the leading topic of debate-and the wide variety of conclusions reached by the "messengers" (delegates) measured the extent to which it has become a real problem for the nation's largest Protestant faith...
...shot Kennedy, wounded Texas Governor John Connally, murdered a policeman and was, in turn, shot dead by Jack Ruby, whom it pictured as a demented loner. The report was widely praised at first-but no longer. The discrepancies-real or imagined-surrounding the assassination have become an increasingly obsessive topic the world over...
They simply glide through an honors program without alternatives, suspecting that this is necessary for their graduate school applications, and wasting both their tutor's and their time in a rather fruitless search for a "topic" which often has little meaning for either. Admittedly, this may reflect on the tutor as much as the student, but casting blame hardly resolves the condition...
...seminar alternative provides specialized readings and discussion in a period or topic, e.g., Civil War, and an opportunity to write a 40-50 page paper, surely sufficient for the "creative experience of writing," especially since the tutor and student will have greater interest and background in the problem than at present. Considered in this light it is a viable and valuable alternative to the thesis. Marvin Lazerson Tutor in History