Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Century or Two. This week the society will publish its semiannual volume of studies called the Analecta Bollandiana, a dry, multilingual collection of research on the lives of the saints. The latest Analecta, for example, contains one article on the Bollandists' current favorite topic. St. Martin of Tours, plus others on such minutiae as an early Swedish manuscript dealing with Persian saints and a papyrus describing the life of St. Phileas. Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit...
Given students who know little about an area of science, one solution--the Redbook's, Holton's, and one allowed by the Bruner Committee--is to select topics as representative and explore them in depth. The difficulty here is that without his teachers' breadth of knowledge, the student cannot know for himself whether and in what way the selected topics are exemplary. The selection must appear arbitrary because the student has no knowledge of the field from which it is made. Moreover, Gen Ed science courses which study selected topics in depth in order to induce useful generalizations about science...
...Harvard Debate Council won a double victory this weekend over Yale and Princeton in the 54th Triangular Debate. The topic argued was "Resolved: That Gambling Should be Legalized in the United States." Harvard won by a 2-to-1 decision in both debates. The debaters also picked up the Greenman Trophy as the outstanding team in the Triangulars...
...same topic will be debated tomorrow in the Triangular Debate against Princeton and Yale...
...notion of selfhood still contains countless perplexing problems, and no psychologist has surpassed James in surveying the topic. For several decades after the publication of the Principles there was little interest in the self. Some commentators have attributed the avoidance to the prevailing behavioristic temper, while others speculate that no one felt he could add to the Jamesian treatment of the concept. In the last twenty years concern with the self has steadily increased. Theories of existential psychiatry, the self-image, and the child's perception of his world all echo ideas originally proposed by James...