Word: subject
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Gilbert Chinard, of Princeton University, speaking last night in the Dunster House Common Room in the first of a series of informal House speeches sponsored by the American Civilization group, took as his subject "The European Background of Jefferson's Thought...
...academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity of Lincoln's efforts: first (vainly) to win the South to gradual, compensated emancipation; then to forestall class and sectional...
...execution of the book is not flawless; Sandburg's method of filing and attacking his material by subject as well as by chronological batches seems to have caused a few unconscious repetitions. A few-but very few-allusions will remain unclear to readers who are not students of the period. There is at times a certain bleakness...
Professor Fay, speaking on the general subject of Germany and Russia in the War, first analyzed the historical background of present relations between Berlin and Moscow. He carefully pointed out that although the Weimar Republic and the Bolshevists were on friendly terms, the Hitler government is the natural enemy of Russia...