Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth of a series of symposiums arranged by the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha Fraternity will be given in the Union Living Room on the evening of April 8 at 8 o'clock. The general subject of the symposium, which is open to the public, will be "Heat...
...symposium given at the Union last night under the auspices of the Gamma Alpha Fraternity, the Scientific Society of the University, presented many amazing and interesting facts to the large audience attending...
...from the argumentative symposium of the day of Plato to the scientific expository symposium of today. It has slowly evolved, passing through such intermediate stages as the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson's time. And there has been likewise a great change in the nature of the subjects dwelt on, and in the atmosphere in which they are treated. In the days of Socrates, philosophy was distilled with the fumes of Hellenic wine, and the asperity of the argument was soothed by the strains of a girl flute player. Eros was discussed, according to Plato's Symposium, until...
...there is the scientific symposium. "Symposium" is obviously a misnomer. No one drinks at the Union or enters unconventionally into the discussions with a clink of glasses and a Germanic "Hoch!" Such men as Raleigh and the Virginia planters have put an end to that-- not to mention men more notorious. The clear air of discussion is now clouded with thin blue smoke, so that such gatherings as that to be held tonight should be more aptly termed "smokosiums", and may the best man smoke the others...
Professor George C. Whipple, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering, will give the third talk at the symposium, on "The Nature and Uses of Water" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Living Room of the Union. He will take the place of the speaker previously announced, Mr. Melville C. Whipple, an instructor in the Engineering School, according to a statement given out by the authorities in charge of the symposium...