Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Schwartzburg, the split occurred because the topic "is hardly political enough to divide on along liberal and conservative lines." There are three caucuses in the group--conservative, liberal, and independent...
Tutorial in mathematics is not obligatory, though honors concentrators usually take advantage of the opportunity of studying under the Department's outstanding mathematicians. Sophomores may also pursue some topic of special interest in individual tutorial...
...room on the first level of Lamont is a collection of past examinations containing, many hope, a clue to future questions. Anxious students scan these paper-bound volumes looking for some trend or favorite topic on which they can wager the tag-end of their study time. Even those who enter examinations well prepared find solace in studying professors' past performances...
Professor Walsh aims his arguments at a number of quotes garnered from his students at Beloit College. Drawn from essays on the assigned topic: "Why I Hesitate to be a Christian," the quotes range from doubts of Christ's divinity to condemnation of Christian hypocrisy. The essay topic is effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest...
...value of sophomore tutorial in preparing him to deal with his field as a whole. Moreever, there is an extraordinary difficulty of getting six students to agree on a common subject--not to mention even a common hour. Whatever subject the tutor settles on--a major author or a topic like seventeenth century prose, or the modern novel, half his group will be already taking a more specialized course in it or prefer to do so the following year. If this sort of duplication is pleasing to some students, it is a cause of chronic complaint to others. It might...