Word: symposium
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Professor Arthur W. Martin, chairman of Washington's Department of Zoology, said yesterday in Seattle that plans for a symposium of "Recent Advances in Invertebrate Physiology," scheduled for this summer, had been dropped. Martin head of the symposium's planning committee, explained that the other three members had resigned in protest over Washington's refusal to hire Oppenheimer as a visiting lecturer...
...weeks later, Harvard professor Perry Miller, in turning down a similar invitation to speak at the University in Seattle, declared, "No self-respecting scholar could talk there now." Last week seven scholars, two of them members of Harvard's medical faculty, joined in refusing to appear at a symposium planned by Washington University's biology department, declaring that the ban on Oppenheimer had "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The symposium was cancelled, over 1,000 Washington students and most of the faculty have protested the ban, and President Schmitz has been called before...
...refusal by the scientists has forced cancellation of the conference, listed as a "Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Enzyme Action" and scheduled for April 7 and 8. It ordinarily would have drawn more than 200 scientists, Hans Neurath, head of Washington's department of Biology, reported last night...
...addition to the general education course, Tillich will teach Systematic Theology, a lecture-conference course primarily for graduate students. He also will participate in a weekly symposium with other prominent theologians of the Boston area...
...Snegireff, speaking before a scientific session of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association in New York, reported on a five-year study of the epidemiology (mass behavior) of lung cancer. The cancer expert spoke on "Lung Cancer and Smoking" in a symposium at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel yesterday afternoon...