Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keeping the Mind Young through Sport" will be the joint topic of the four speakers, although it is understood that Harvard's former track star and the man who found Dick Harlow will approach the subject in a slightly different manner from the three specialists, slugger Lou and the racquet-minded duet of Mrs. Moody and Davis...
Other speakers that morning will be Will Hays, who is to the movie industry what Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is to baseball, and Robert Moses, New York Park Commissioner. Hays' topic is to be "Keeping the Mind Young Through Motion Pictures," while Moses will tell how to keep the mind young through parks and playgrounds...
...Human Nature in the Light of Psychopathology" will be the topic of a lecture by Dr. Kurt Goldstein, Clinical Professor of Neurology, Columbia University, at Emerson Hall, at 4:30 o'clock. This is the second of Dr. Goldstein's series of lectures this fall as William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology...
...short, it seems to me trifling to an almost fantastic degree to editorialize about the advisability of making History 1 compulsory. The real topic for discussion is, how shall we recover some integrated and meaningful scheme for the four-year curriculum at Cambridge? What should a B.A. signify? The inarticulate and confusion which characterizes the undergraduate attitude today is, I think, not only unfortunate, but in a world of rapidly evaporating liberalism, highly dangerous. Sincerely, Richard W. B. Lewis...
...tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed. A more accurate measure of ability seems to be the thesis, a topic not mentioned by Dr. Lowell...