Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Topic of both debates is Resolved: that it is the moral obligation of every American citizen to fight if called upon in any war in which the United States is a belligerent party. The Harvard team meeting Princeton, composed of John A. Sullivan '38; Lawrence F. Ebb '39; and Claudius Byrne '40, will support the negative side of the question. The general public will be admitted to the debate...
Against Yale, the Crimson speakers will take the affirmative of this topic. Those on the Harvard team are Phil C. Neal '40, Donald McDonald '39, and Malcolm Wilkey...
...Schrade, noted musicologist formerly of the University of Ronn will give two free public lectures at Harvard, one tomorrow and another Friday. "The Music of Handel" will be Dr. Schrade's topic in a lecture at the Germante Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Friday night he will lecture on "England's influence upon the Musical History of Europe" at the Harvard Music Building at 8:15 o'clock...
...revolution period has been the Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played...
...that reason, the Committee on Extra-Curricular Reading in American History, should be heartily congratulated for their services in securing Professor Frankfurter for a series of three public lectures upon so important and timely a topic as "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes." The publication of the notable Reading List on American History which was so widely acclaimed was unquestionably a contribution of great and fundamental importance. But the present series of lectures sponsored by the Committee, making available the wisdom of noted and cloistered speakers to students and the general public can only be of the greatest practical value...