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Speeding Scandal. This week, many of John Erskine's devoted associates gathered at Columbia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of what had come to be known, somewhat long-windedly, as Columbia's Colloquium on Important Books. The course had grown since Erskine left it to devote himself to writing after his novel, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, became a bestseller. It had been extended, via Columbia's humanities course, to all Columbia College students. The idea had traveled to the University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores...
...took us no more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...
Sponsored jointly by the Anthropology Society, the Social Relations Society, and the Social Relations Colloquium, Dr. Gregg will speak on "Biology and Human Affairs," He is expected to discuss the relevance of biology to the study of social institutions...
Georges Friedmann, director of studies at the school for advanced studies at the Sorbonne, will be presented jointly by the Social Relations Department and the Graduate Colloquium in his talk on industrial psychology...
Also among the first talks will be a discussion by Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering Science and chairman of the department's colloquium committee on "Some Problems of Fluid Mechanics." and an address by Professor W. Prager of Brown University dealing with "An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Plasticity...