Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shall the League of Nations be Armed?" is the essence of the subject that will be brought before the winter session of the Harvard League of Nations which will meet on Thursday, December 15. This topic was selected by the Committee on Preparations which is advised by B. C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government. The members of this committee are M. S. Knowles '34, R. L. Behrens '34, Cullison Cady '35, A. D. Cadman '35, D. S. Carmichael '35, V. H. Kramer '35 from the United States; G. V. Haythrone 1g, of Canada; Naotadu Kumagal '36, of Japan; Wolfgang...
With distinguished educators from Universities all over the continent in attendance, a three-day conference to discuss the topic of "The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order" begins tomorrow in New York...
...courses there is much halting presentation of badly digested abstracts from textbooks, material which may be assimilated through the eye much more rapidly than through the ear. And there seems to be a feeling that an instructor who cannot talk fifty-seven minutes on every daily topic is unworthy of his hire; seldom is a class dismissed, as it well might be, at the end of forty-five minutes; seldom does an instructor confess that the wealth of excellent reading material on a certain section of the field covered by his course make two meetings a week rather than three...
Digressing within the general topic of cancer, Sir Lenthal last week observed that life habits seem to be factors in causing certain types of cancer. The frequency of cancer in women is practically the same in Japan, England, Switzerland and Holland. England and Switzerland show large percentages of cancer of the breast and uterus, considerably more of both kinds than has The Netherlands. In Japan there is a great deal of uterine cancer, very little mammary cancer...
...through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text, short enough to be thoroughly considered before the class meeting...