Word: topical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, England, last week let be known the name of the man upon whom Professor Fraser of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, recently performed an experiment that required vivisection. Viscount Haldane, uncle of J. B. S. Haldane, had described the operation in the House of Lords when the topic of vivisection happened to come before that moribund body...
...respect--and that is the light which it throws on the eating problem in the University. All other details subject themselves to this one regard. One may assume that the purpose of the Student Council in broaching this subject which is discussed openly less than any other undergraduate topic is philanthropical and not analytical merely for the sake of offering statistics and figures indicative of club enrollment...
...Abraham's Bosom" the jury has elected a thoughtful and sincere play; in "Early Autumn" a restrained and carefully finished piece of fiction; and in "The Herald Commends", an editorial which was not only worthy in itself but which took a brave and courageous stand on an important topic. If the Pulitzer prizes have established a precedent for discernment that precedent has not been violated...
Hackneyed among debating societies is the topic: Resolved, that city life is preferable to country life. But last year more than 3,000,000 U. S. citizens held personal debate on the question and two times out of three the city...
...those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads to keep one entranced for many hours...