Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stations of the Yankee Network on Monday, March 22, from 9:30 to 10:00 o'clock in the evening. The new feature will present Seymour E. Harris '20, associate professor of Economics, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, and John K. Galbraith, instructor in Economics, in a symposium on "The Prospects and Dangers of a New Business Room...
...main problem of the school, as the Commission predicted, will be to achieve a position which is neither that of a symposium in political philosophy nor a mere trade school for the mechanics of government. It is of great importance that this middle of the road be closely followed. The higher realms of political theory are proper fields for those who intend to teach, but those whose immediate business is the government service have neither the time nor the energy to spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered...
...odds & ends of information, like the hodge-podge of an almanac, which was mightily impressive to his readers. He had a Wellsian feeling for science and material progress, often pondered on the vastness of the material universe, as contrasted with the minuteness of man. For a King Features symposium just before his death, Mr. Brisbane typically wrote: "The successful completion of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million light years into space, and that is a long distance.* ... I think mankind...
...four speakers in the Harvard Student Union symposium were Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry, and candidate for the Senate on the Socialist ticket; George Blake, secretary of the New England division of the Communist Party; David Stock, a Democratic New York lawyer and former special counsel to the Finance Committee of the Senate during Hoover's regime; and Henry Parkman '15, a member of the Massachusetts Senate who presented the Republican point of view...
...develop cancer of the breast (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week at Madison Dr. Madge Thurlow Macklin of London, Ont. declared that this inherited organ susceptibility applied to human beings too. Said Dr. Macklin, 43, plump, vivacious mother of three daughters, and the only woman taking part in the cancer symposium: "We find that the members of a family tend to have the same type of cancer, and in the same organ, and at about the same time of life. Thus it is much commoner to find a family in which the mother and two daughters have breast cancer, or uterine...