Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these figures are realized, the obvious problem of overcrowding immediately arises. A national conference on the topic, "Approaching Equality or Opportunity in Higher Education," sponsored by the American Council on Education, has examined the situation in colleges. The conference came to three conclusions: 1) educational opportunity through the next two decades will extend in the abstract ideological sense; 2) the enormous increase of college enrollments in the 1960-75 period, however, will result in an overall reduction of educational opportunity (by 1975, 3,800,000 men and women will be reaching the age of 22 annually, compared...
...leading members of the College will speak at a symposium at 10 a.m. this morning in New Lecture Hall on the topic "The College: Its Future Size and Shape...
Five of the Class of 1931's "most successful sons" told a near-capacity New Lecture Hall audience yesterday what Harvard had "meant" to them, and how it had "contributed to their success," but one of them departed somewhat from the general topic of "Harvard and Thereafter" to discuss the present generation...
...more detailed the debator's knowledge of his topic, the better his chances of success. "With a good strong case worked out," the debator continued, "you can be ready for any plan your opposition can present. Just about every argument has a hole in it. If you can find that hole and attack it forcefully enough, you've won the debate." The undergraduate Debate Council annually prepares a voluminous file on the national debate topic--the subject of most intercollegiate tournaments...
...Florida in March and entry in the National Invitational Tournament at West Point two weeks ago, the Council this year sponsored three spring vacation tours. For the first time, the tours produced a profit for the Council treasury, as opponents paid $20 each to debate Harvard on "any topic and any side" they chose. One trip went to Houston, Tex., a second to the plain states, and a third to Minnesota...