Word: symposia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited in its membership to any one House, but is open to all undergraduates who are interested in any of the sciences. Meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, and are preceded by a supper at which the members have an opportunity to meet the speaker. Other activities include student symposia and field trips...
...public indifference to education, the college has spread its tentacles throughout the country, justifying by national scholarships its position as a national institution. In the top brackets of learning, roving professorships promise well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board, set a precedent that bids fair to have great future importance in the spread of higher learning. The award of degrees to the savants, at which the president pledged the university to the maintenance of the free...
During the next two months, four memorial volumes will be published about the Celebration. The first will be a complete record, including the texts of the principal speeches. Three other volumes will record the three collaborative symposia held as a part of the Tercentenary Conference, namely "Independence, Convergence, and Borrowing in Institution, Thought, and Art," "Authority and the Individual," and "Factors Determining Human Behavior." The individual papers in the physical sciences and biology will be published by the authors through their own channels, it being felt that such papers would be more useful to Scholars if published in the usual...
...members have been added to the faculty. Beside those men receiving permanent appointments, there are many distinguished scholars who have been borrowed from other universities either for a single semester or for the whole academic year. Most of these men are already in Cambridge, having attended the Tercentenary symposia and the Celebration...
Among the Nobel Prize winners speaking in the Biological and Physical Science symposia were Arthur Holly Compton in physics and Karl Landsteiner and Frederick Gowland Hopkins in medicine. Professor Compton, who is 44 years old, is one of the world's leading authorities on cosmic rays. After being a National Research Fellow in 1919, he became an instructor at Minnesota, research physicist with the Westinghouse Electric Co., and head of the Department of Physics at Washington University. Since 1923 he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and has traveled extensively around the world in pursuit...