Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second round will include debates between Eliot and Leverett, Winthrop and Kirkland, Lowell and Dunster, and Adams and Dudley. The topic for these debates is: "Resolved: 'Tis better to be a conformist than a non-conformist...
...most college presidents, the topic under discussion-industrial and foundation aid to higher education-would have been a heartening one. But the more President K. Duane Hurley of West Virginia's little (306 full-time students) Salem College heard at the meeting of fellow presidents one day last summer, the more depressed he became. "For two days," said he, "I listened to reports about trie Ford Foundation and what it expected to do, about the National Merit Scholarship program, the Sears Roebuck scholarship plan and similar ones." Yet for all these benefactions, Salem remained completely ineligible. Reason: like...
...call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam's and Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat field un der hail, the dancing fury of the summer sun or the polar malice of a prairie winter, he almost earns an A in writing...
...League Debate held Friday night in conjunction with the tournament Columbia defeated the Debate Council's team on the national topic...
They debated alternately the affirmative and negative of the national collegiate debate topic, "Resolved: That the non-agricultural industries of the United States should guarantee their employees an annual wage." Each finalist was undefeated through all six rounds of the tournament...