Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a storm swamped a rowboat on Cayuga Lake in 1916, a young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...
Basing its case on the need for price controls if the European recovery program is to succeed, the Brown debate team won a unanimous victory over the Crimson last night on the topic "Price Controls on Basic Commodities." Arthur Stillman and Wells Hangen argued for Brown against Daniel Pierce '49 and Robert Cohn...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50, president of the Liberal Union, said yesterday that the topic is connected with a resolution passed at the last meeting of the organization supporting Truman's recent address to Congress urging interim aid. The Marshall Plan, and executive controls in order to fight inflation...
Senator Homer Capehart, Indiana Republican, and Leon H. Keyserling, LL.D. '31 will substitute for Walter P. Reuther in tomorrow night's Law School Forum, as Reuther notified the Forum that he would be unable to speak. Changing the topic to "What Shall We Do About the High Cost of Living?", the Forum has postponed the program until Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at Rindge Tech...
...original plays, a short story on the theatre, and a series of articles on Harvard and 'Cliffe dramatic groups will angle the publication's contents forward the dramatic topic. Art work and the recently-innovated center photospread is also planned to most with the theme...