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...insight into "Government-Sponsored Electronic Research Programs in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics" will be presented at one of the first meetings of the new Applied Science Colloquium by Emory L. Chaffee, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics...
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...
...Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics is relatively new, having been set up last June. The colloquium committee is composed of Chairman Emmons, Frederick V. Hunt, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor Chaffee...
...June 30 at 8 o'clock in the observatory library, when Dr. G. P. Gaposchkin will speak on "The Present Status of Theories of Stollar Evolution." On July 7 Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paino Professor of Practical Astronomy, will conduct a hollow square conference and the following week a special colloquium is planned to commemorate the work of Dr. A. B. Wyso. Hollow Square conferences will be held on July 21 and August 4, and on July 28 Dr. F. L. Whipple will speak on "Densities and Temperatures in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere." Plans for the second summer school session...
Highlight of a colloquium on The Idea of God in the Ancient Near East was the assertion by Herbert Gordon May of Oberlin that the religion of the Hebrew patriarchs differed widely from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah...