Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the Harvard Debate Council had its troubles. They had planned to engage two Cornell girls in a discussion on the topic: "Resolved, That girls should choose death before dishonor," with the men defending the negative. But despite an O.K. from the Dean of Women, the Cornell Dean of Men ruled out the debate on the technical grounds that the topic should have been filed with his office ten days...
Fairbank also feels that the public hysteria caused by anti-communism is restricting study in Asia, a topic which he will discuss tonight at the Harvard Liberal Union's forum on "Anti-Communism and Public Policy...
Throughout the interview, Crane talked slowly, punctuating each idea with a long pause, and exhausting one topic completely before going to a new one. He likes music, and follows the theatre assiduously. But his main interest is politics. His election campaigns are conducted in keeping with his personal dignity and respectability. Before the last election, he sent personal letters to all the registered voters in the city, beginning with the usual biographical details, qualifications for office, and ending with this unusual political statement: "Again I have disregarded some traditional and annoying tactics--no billboards, no wall posters, no sound trucks...
...affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...
...affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...