Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the business meeting, at 10 a.m., Dr. William B. Castle, professor of Medicine, will preside as moderator of a medical symposium...
Speakers and their topics at the symposium will be: Dr. Joseph C. Aub, professor of Research Medicine, "An Eider Statesman's View on Research in Medicine;" Dr. Robert E. Gross, professor of Child Surgery, "Surgery for Atrial Septal Defects;" Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, "How to Pick a Smart Associate;" Dr. Thomas H. Weller, professor of Tropical Health, "Some of my Viral Friends," and Dr. Joseph A. Garland, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, "Some Accessory Factors in Medical Education...
Mumble Pie. In Baltimore, after they discovered that the microphone in their meeting room at the Southern Hotel was dead, members of a symposium on "Generating Electric Current" at the Convention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers adjourned to the Lord Baltimore Hotel, found the microphones were dead there, too, finally resorted to old-fashioned lung power...
...Sociologist Alex Inkeles both turned down invitations to lecture at Washington ; so did M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Last week the university revealed that seven top scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard, the University of Wisconsin and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research would not attend a scheduled symposium on the "molecular basis of enzyme action." Reason: Schmitz's veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz...
...midweek Hans Neurath, head of the biochemistry department, announced that the enzyme symposium would have to be indefinitely postponed. It "would have been." said he, "one of the most outstanding scientific gatherings of its kind ... Its loss is highly deplorable...