Word: topical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present epidemic of infantile paralysis throughout the state will be the general topic at the moting and the University instructors who will speak are Dr. M. J. Rosenau Hon '14, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the Medical School, and Dr. W. L. Aycoc. Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the School and head of the professional staff of the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission...
Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...
Last Monday evening at the foreign students' reception at Phillips Brooks House plans were announced for the Harvard International Council. This assembly will meet on November 10 at 8 o'clock for the first time and once every month thereafter for an hour's discussion of topics of international importance. The discussions will be limited strictly to one hour, each delegate being allowed to speak for two minutes at a time. An authority on the subject discussed will preside over the assembly and answer questions. The topic for each meeting will be announced at the preceding...
...provocative beginning. Nowhere is a good story better appreciated than in isolated Hawaii; no topic is more popular in Hawaii than anything pertaining to the behavior of those still further removed colonists, the white U. S. citizens of the Philippines...
...Vagabond's chief aspiration is to suggest. If, by listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...