Word: topically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Touching squarely on the topic which President Roosevelt insists must be kept out of the Conference. Mr. MacDonald rasped with a stubborn Scotch burr: "The question of War debts . . . must be dealt with before every obstacle to general recovery has been removed and it must be taken up without delay...
...report results, in part, from a request by University Hall for student opinion on various phases of the House Plan. It will consider, among other topic, House athletics, room prices, and the selection of students, the use of House libraries by commuters, the work of the Central Committee for assigning students to Houses, the problem of assigning men to tutors resident in their House, and the distribution of men representing different fields of concentration in the Houses...
...prescribed reading, which is not unusually difficult, and in the examination, where there is a choice of three out of 11 questions, the emphasis is on understanding a few topics thoroughly. A wide range of choice is permitted, in picking a topic for the course thesis. Concentrators in fields other than philosophy are graded more easily, and are encouraged to write on whatever in the lectures has bearing on their particular interests...
...three men. The tutors would select men of about the same ability in determining the personnel of his various groups, to prevent less active students from being forced into the background. The opportunity of distributing tutorial assignment among two or three individuals plainly would allow a treatment of any topic to be at the same time more detailed and more comprehensive...
...Friday, April 28, Mr. Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Mr. Spencer Miller, Jr., Secretary of the Workers Educational Bureau of America, will be the guest speakers. Mr. Hillman will speak on "A Shorter Working Day and a Minimum Wage." Mr. Miller's topic will be "The Challenge to Labor of the New Leisure...