Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak for Harvard will be chosen at trials to be held Thursday. The debaters for all other scheduled engagements will also be chosen at these trials. The topic for debate is: Resolved: That the United States should build its navy to treaty strength. There will be three speeches on each side of four minutes' duration, and there will be no rebuttal...
...same thing which has aroused public interest in economics was the chief topic of interest to the economists: money. One afternoon 3,000 pundits crowded the walls of the ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel to hear Professor Warren expound his theory of the relationship of the gold supply to price levels, that the cause of the Depression was that prices outran the supply of gold in the late boom. It was his first public pronouncement since he became adviser to the President. When he had done, the 3,000 listened just as eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken...
...rest of the season was also announced yesterday. On February 11 a debate will be held with the University of Pennsylvania on the subject: Resolved: that the leisure time under our economic system is detrimental to our society and civilization. Harvard will uphold the affirmative of this topic. Other debates this winter will be held with Providence, Holy Cross, and Smith Colleges...
...modest proposal for Harvard presentation of good German films appeared in these columns that the reader may well be weary of the business, and he is therefore assured that no more will be printed about it unless some definite development makes possible and necessary an unhackneyed treatment of the topic. Some definite development is the very thing that is needed. Everyone agrees there is no serious objection to presenting German movies as French films are now provided; all are at one in desiring action on the matter...
...moral things, may be too delicate a flower for the harsh breath of existence, and so fall and wither away from lack of strength. The one iron and strychnine tonic to prevent this disaster is Interest. To quicken interest there is one sure formula, to capture fancy in the topic for debate. If the sponsors of the innovation act wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate, or the advisability of placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt, or the necessity of forcing conformity on the faces of Memorial Hall...