Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kefauver, who has not announced his exact topic, will appear tonight in Boston and then proceed this weekend to New Hampshire, where he will seek support for the nation's first Presidential primary on March 13. In 1952 the Tennessee senator won the primary...
February. An Eliot House janitor will win the $64,000 Question. His topic will be "The Spirit of Ancient Athens." A Cambridge commission for urban renewal will propose a modernization of Harvard's campus. President Pusey will counter by saying, "Harvard has no campus." Fire Chief Kilfoyle will drive the hook and ladder to Miami for repairs...
Third, the Harvard Law School has developed a well deserved reputation as a meeting ground for students of varying backgrounds, educational as well as geographical. A number of law students with such varying backgrounds can contribute far more to the overall broad view of a topic than can an equal number of "well-bred" Liberal Arts students. Dean Griswold's aim would sacrifice this important aspect of legal training...
When planning his half year visit to Harvard, Siegfried had hoped to lecture on this topic of the future of civilization, but his schedule would not permit it. The professor, nevertheless, when free, is approachable on any subject. Those who meet him remark on his conversation which may include any topic from the Roman Catholic Church to workingmen's compensation. "In fact," noted Albert A. Mavrinac, the professor's unofficial guide, "Siegfried is interested in everything...
...than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when the final report on school goals came out with 14 vague and diffuse points-e.g., respect and appreciation...