Word: symposium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Conant, who led the weekend field with three speeches, also spoke Friday evening in a symposium on "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society," and off the record at Saturday night's full-scale banquet...
Prentice-Hall got out first with something called Sex Habits of American Men ($3). It is a serious symposium edited by PM Columnist Albert Deutsch; most of the 13 contributors are friendly to Kinsey. But Yale Psychiatrist Robert P. Knight offers a sharp dissent to Kinsey's assumption that prevalence and normality are the same thing. The common cold, says Dr. Knight, has about the same incidence as homosexuality in Kinsey's findings (that 37% of all U.S. males have some homosexual experience). But the prevalence of colds, says Dr. Knight, does not make them "normal...
With an eye toward making the city conscious of the group luncheous, banquets, business meetings, and symposium, the Promotion Committee is now arranging for extensive Harvard exhibits and decorations in department store windows and hotel lobbies...
Main event of the conclave will be the symposium, "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society," at which President Conant will preside over a discussion headlined by several nationally-known speakers...
What are the wild waves saying? For one thing, they may be warning of a storm 5,000 miles away. Last week Britain's Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon told a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences how he makes waves spill their secrets...