Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millikan's persistent view after 15 years is that cosmic rays are photons, or particles of light. He believes they originate from the creation of matter between the stars. But where they originate was not the nub of last week's symposium. What they are was the point. Dr. Compton declared again that they were electrons (and/or photons) coming to earth from beyond the atmosphere, or originating at the top of the atmosphere. When a photon hits an atom in the atmosphere, the atom emits an electron. When an electron hits an atom, the atom emits a photon...
...Gamma Alpha Symposium on "Energy," which was held in the New Lecture Hall last night at 8 o'clock, three members of the Faculty spoke to an audience of over 500 people. They were P. W. Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, W. J. Crozier, professor of General Physiology, and A. E. Kennelly, professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus. The speakers were introduced by G. H. Parker, professor of Zoology...
Scott Nearing, lecturer and former faculty member of Columbia University, will conduct a symposium on "The Probability of War," to be held under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club, on Monday evening, December...
...Monday, December 12, the Liberal Club will also conduct a symposium on the subject of the imminence of war, which will be led by Sherwood Anderson. The committee which will attend the conference is composed of: E. Y. Hartshorne '33, L. M. Kaufman 1G.B. M. S. Knowles '34, Just Lunning 1G.B., and Peregrine White...
...Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...