Word: topic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after serious deliberations, it is suggested--quite cunningly, too,--the review actually approved. A peculiar use or unsuspected ignorance of the correct and artistic method of including erroneous impressions in the same...
...connection with Dr. Eliot's address on Friday, may I venture an essay upon a troublesome topic. I shall have been satisfied simply if my words invite criticism. Dr. Eliot seems in my opinion to have fallen into that most hazardous of determinations--that of moral evaluation. I should quibble more precisely over the word "unfortunate"--which he applies to the tendency of Jews to intermarry. It depends more entirely upon what Dr. Eliot holds to be "fortunate." If two people--I choose not to use the word "race"--are so entirely divergent that there is small likelihood that they...
...lecture tonight is on a topic that brought him into prominence before the war, when one of his articles describing life in the Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued...
...next meeting of the History Club. Professor Dana Carleton Munro, of Princeton, will be the speaker. Professor Munro is one of the leading mediaeval scholars of this country and is an authority on the Crusades. His topic will be "Impressions of Syria...
Monday, December 15, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, will speak on some topic to be announced later, in connection with the present church controversy. He will speak at Peabody Hall under the auspices of the Christian Association. Before the meeting he will be the guest of the Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet at an informal dinner...