Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representatives from both the Columbia Broadcasting System and the British Broadcasting Company were in Cambridge last week to talk to the Harvard debaters about the possibility of a televised confrontation between the Council and the Cambridge University Debating Club via telestar satellite. The proposed topic was "The Decline of Western Civilization...
...White House. The inference in your story on college admissions [May 7] is that you can get a good education at a small school. This pearl of wisdom doesn't seem to have impressed the group of "Ivy League rejects" that hangs out at our house. The favorite topic of conversation at present seems to be, "What school are you transferring to next year...
...them all up in his head." He fascinated his speech classes with his personal, pointed anecdotes, loved to throw out a single word and demand that his students ad-lib a speech about it. Once the word "string" stumped the class-but Lyndon promptly talked 15 minutes on the topic. Then, as now, Johnson hated to lose. His Sam Houston debate team came within one point of winning the state championship in 1931 -and Lyndon vomited backstage before he could congratulate the winners...
...members of the Harvard debating team will compete for the two annual Coolidge Prizes at 8 p.m. tonight in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall, at the Law School. The topic will be "Resolved: That the United States should withdraw from Vietnam...
Seniors who have written theses take only an oral exam. In theory the hour is evenly divided between testing the student's overall comprehension of social relations and determining his knowledge of his thesis topic. In fact the former purpose is seldom achieved. Honors concentrators receive little or no testing of their understanding of the field as a whole...