Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineer George Albert Soper, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, loped about Europe with a bundle of banknotes in his hand. In certain capitals he stopped to search out a professor eminent for cancer researches and to invite the personage to a first International Symposium on Cancer Control to be held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. If, as did happen, the man he wanted hesitated over the expenses of a trans-atlantic voyage, Dr. Soper (he is a doctor of philosophy) was prepared to press expense money upon...
Last week the symposium took place with European, Canadian and U. S. specialists attending. Little that they said was new. But the aggregate of the facts presented will have the effect of stirring up public interest in cancer control. After all, that was the main purpose of the symposium...
...what is it that makes them fall into loose ways? Generally they are men whose physique is too poor to give them a chance of athletic squads, men who have been cut because there is no longer any room for them. And having no adequate symposium or swimming pool in which to exercise themselves they follow the other paths open to them. Now which will do these men the most good a chapel in which they can sit in marbled coolness thinking of the good times they are missing or a gymnasium in which they can find good wholesome exercise...
...great historian": it would perhaps be more correct to term him a great publicist, since the purpose of his writing is not merely to state facts, but also to develop these facts as illustrations of a particular theory. To those who have read his little volume entitled "A Modern Symposium," no introduction will be necessary. The same charm of style, the same aptness and simplicity of expression are here applied to historical data...
...commendable methods. The survey of our own Students Curriculum Committee has already led to changes in the plan of courses, while at Dartmouth last year, students carried on a careful investigation of the curriculum and suggested wide changes many of which were adopted. Contrast with this the rather undignified symposium of courses published last fall by the Harvard CRIMSON in which each course was individually criticised, giving the personal reactions, pro and con of the students. This is obviously a poor way to go about any constructive criticism of the curriculum. It ultimately collapses into blased prejudices instead of thoughtful...