Word: topicalism
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Although the university has been central in the world of American art scholarship for centuries, its formal relationship to the field has been awkward at best. Some of the biggest names were trained in fair Cambridge and classes on the topic have been taught since the 1930s. Nevertheless, it is only in the past couple of decades that a formal push towards recognition and cultivation of American art history has really come to fruition...
...Council discussions also turned to the topic of financial...
...also taken to discussing this topic with basically anyone who will listen. One of the reasons that Ivy presidents can get away with singling out football in terms of a postseason ban is that most students just aren’t aware of it. I feel that if most students knew how good of a shot Penn or Harvard had at winning a national title this season or even that such a distinction was even an option, the passivity of the fan bases would rapidly vanish...
...This is actually a somewhat delicate issue,” said Economics Department Chair Alberto F. Alesina, who declined to comment further on the topic...
...There is an informal discussion about including women in punch, but there is no annual vote,” he writes in an e-mail. “I believe that other clubs have explored the topic more deeply. Looking at trends at other colleges with all-male social clubs, one would expect that at least some clubs will eventually admit female members. It is difficult to speculate as to a time-table, because I don’t know how close the other clubs have come...