Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Porter Hall, a girls' dormitory, took the place of Pontigny. And last week for the second year, intellectuals who had bandied ideas in Burgundy found themselves just as happy in Massachusetts, although they missed such old Ponti-nians as rapier-sharp Gide. General topic of the second summer of Mount Holyoke entretiens: "permanence of values and renovation of means," with weekly subdivisions for poetry, politics, sociology, science, theater, art, the novel...
...Liberalism Failed?" will be the topic of the opening meeting, at which Dr. Deutsch will preside. Speakers at the later meetings will include Professor R. B. Perry on "William James's Contribution to Liberalism"; Dean Henry W. Holmes on "What is Liberal Education?"; Professor F. O. Matthiessen on "Liberalism in American History"; and the Rev. Ernest Kuebler on "Making a Liberal Faith Effective...
...public can't listen in on the interesting discussions of the workshop because it would be so easy for one hearing only one part of the program, to get an entirely wrong idea of the nature of the work this group is doing. The director warned that the topic of interracial tensions is not one that can stand "sentimental action. We can't use weak stomachs and soft heads...
Pepper introduced the topic by tracing the historical background of the world union problem and the importance of this background today. Following this, he emphasized that the foreign policy of the United States has been more or less consistent...
...local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs and much of their first-aid equipment." The topic of the next meeting was announced: "War Surgery...