Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent enough as a Police Commissioner of New York City to be named to the Board of Overseers. Even then, his interest could not be called intense. He once described his first meeting to a friend, "I felt like a bull dog who had strayed into a symposium of perfectly clean, white Persian cats...
...Speaking at a symposium on "Man's Right to Knowledge" at Columbia University, the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America defended Roman Catholic censorship and authority to decide what books are fit reading for Catholics. "Whatever advantages may accrue to one through the use of his personal freedom," he said, "they have no real value if they impede or imperil the attainment of his eternal destiny. Hence it is not an evil but a good when those in authority . . . regulate the use of liberty by those subject to their jurisdiction...
After Monro introduced the idea at a College Board symposium this spring the executives appointed an ad hoc committee to discuss the clearing house. That committee met in Cambridge and recommended further action to the Board's executives for today's meeting...
Monro originally proposed the plan at a College Board symposium last spring. At that time administrators seemed interested and a committee was organized to study the idea...
Magda Gabor, Al Capp, and Earl Wilson will examine the extent and breadth of "The American Girl" in a Law School forum tonight. The three experts will examine her assets in Sanders Theatre in a symposium...