Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Origin of Life" will be discussed from three angles this evening at the science symposium which begins at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The three branches of the subject to be treated are: that of astronomy, "Life Throughout the Universe"; biology, "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life"; and religion, "Life and Spirit...
...general subject of the first symposium will be "The Origin of Life", and each professor will consider a certain special aspect of the subject. Professor Shapley is to discuss "Life throughout the Universe"; Professor Jeffrey will speak on "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life", and Professor Lake will treat "Life and Spirit...
Early in December a second symposium will be held, the general subject being "Sound", and it is expected that the speakers will be Professor Frederick A. Saunders, of the department of physics, Dr. A. T. Davison '06, associate professor of music, and Professor George H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory at the University...
...speakers at the first symposium are especially well qualified to talk on the subject chosen. Professor Shapley was a graduate of the University of Missouri in 1910, and received his doctor's degree at Princeton in 1914. He was astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California from that time until he came to Harvard as director of the college observatory in 1921, now holding also the Paine professorship of practical astronomy. Dr. Shapley is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in England as well as of other societies, and has made notable researches in photometry and spectroscopy...
Significance. The importance of this symposium is considered to lie in the fact that it marks a line of duty from which individual churches cannot retreat with honor. But the symposium is not a program, it carries no seal of responsibility; it is, however, prophetic of the church, seeking a new creed for a new day, or at least a more valiant and effective application of creeds which...