Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter printed elsewhere on this page puts forth a case for maintaining a forum where undergraduates may discuss current political, sociological, and economic problems. There can be little quarrel with the main argument of the correspondent, that there would be value in a communal meeting point at Harvard for all students with more than a passive interest in current events and their underlying causes and ultimate effects...
...controversial questions for discussion will do much to dissipate any appearance of artificiality. After the welcoming address on Saturday morning by President Angell of Yale, who is Honorary President of the Advisory Council for the Assembly, the eleventh session of the sixth plenary meeting will immediately convene. They will discuss the "Compulsory Settlement of All International Disputes by Peaceful Means." The discussion will take the form of a debate on an amendment to the Covenant designed to "close the gap" which at present permits of war as a means of settlement of some disputes. Several amendments would be necessary...
While the representatives of the powers are debating at the London Conference how to preserve peace by a proper balance of military strength, there is being made at New Haven an attempt to bring peace by a student discussion of international problems. The New England Colleges' League of Nations Model Assembly which will be held on April 25-27 will discuss in open forum the problems which are hindering amity among nations...
...Harvard University Debating Council will meet the Chinese University debaters to discuss the question: "Resolved, That this house views with approval the abolition of Extra-territoriality by China" at 8 o'clock this evening in Ford Hall, Boston, it was announced yesterday by coach E. M. Rowe...
...institution. It is a school where students in the later stages of their academic course are brought together from many countries to meet one another and a distinguished and equally international group of university teachers. It is a place for students to meet, to hear diverse view-points, to discuss them, and to grow to understand them. It provides a vivid opportunity for the close and comparative study of national cultures and of all the psychological differences which have hitherto acted as barriers to international cooperation...