Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles William Eliot '53, President Emeritus of the University, will preside at a symposium on "The Next War", which will be given in the New Lecture Hall on Tuesday evening, November 18, at 8 o'clock. This symposium, the first to be held this year at the University, has been arranged by the University branch of Gamma Alpha, the national scientific society. "The Next War" will be discussed from three angles, the three speeches being as follows: "Science in the War", "Conscription on Thought in War", and "The Stacking of the Cards...
...Author. Joseph Hergesheimer went first to a Friends' school in Phil adelphia, later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...
...possible for a woman to paint a great picture? This question, a hoary one, was revived last week by a critic in directing attention to the symposium of art reviewers (males); it was answered in the negative. Women, said they, have lost the fine impulse for original creation in the centuries of artistic repression which they have undergone. "Paint they can, but not on canvas," said the critics...
From London, went Albert Mansbridge, Chairman of the World Association for Adult Education, to Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., to prepare for his organization's part in the Chautauqua jubilee symposium, to be held next week. Said he: "Adult education has become a force in many countries...
...concert in the Music Building at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow which will be followed by a talk by Mr. Ballantine, instrumental selections by several students in the University, and an imformal reception. The climax of the week will come on Friday night when Professor Hill will give a Jazz Symposium in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston...