Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society of Chemistry, Tseng Chao-lun, confessed his organization's past errors in adopting "Anglo-American" laboratory methods, called for a "patriotic" reorientation...
...World Socialist Party of Boston issued a challenge to the Debate Council Friday to defend the negative side of next Friday's Yale topic: "Resolved, That the inheritance of wealth is against the best interests of society...
...Freshman Debate Council defeated both Yale and Princeton last night to win the triangular championship. Debating the topic, "Resolved, That the Federal Government should subsidize the higher education of superior students," one Crimson group won the affirmative at Princeton and another the negative in a unanimous decision here. James L. Kincaid, on the affirmative team, received the best speaker award...
...Freshman Debate Council will engage a Princeton team at Princeton and a Yale team here tonight at 8 p.m. on the topic, "Resolved, That the Federal Government should subsidize the higher education of superior students...
Jared M. Diamond, Duane J. Murner, and Steven R. Rivkin will debate the affirmative at Princeton. John B. Hermanson, James L. Kincaid, and Jonathan Kozol will uphold the negative side of the topic in the Yale contest...