Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of them certainly are clever On the subject of "Home," for instance, there is the statement by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." A brilliant saying in the topic of "Economics" goes like this: "When we speak of bum steers in the stock market, we aren't talking about farming." This last saying certainly embodies" a great truth," just as Mr. Prochnow promised. Its author, incidentally, is Herbert V. Prochnow...
Cambridge and Oxford alternate in an annual three-month tour of the United States. There was no decision in last year's Oxford-Harvard debate, since the two British debators argued on different sides of the topic, Resolved: "That Progress Depends on the Unreasonable...
Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
...next meeting of the club presidents is scheduled for Oct. 20 with tentative discussions to include a debate topic for the Forum's first meeting and a method to determine the number of representatives permitted each group...
...Freud God? Assistant Professor Alston of the University of Michigan will not answer these questions in "Philosphy 190," but he will examine some of the ways in which the phenomenon of religious belief can be interpreted. St. Thomas Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Santayana, and Freud had various views on this topic, and the ideas will all come out in Emerson...