Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Church. The ushers looked askance at his homespun clothes and refused to find him a seat. Last week Boston felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted. He was praised for having made a fortune in the restaurant business and in real estate, but most...
...Department of Philosophy last night eulogized Ralph Barton Perry '96, late professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at a symposium portraying his character and thought...
Four speakers--Perry G. E. Miller, Professor of American Literature, Henry D. Aiken, Professor of Philosophy, Donald C. Williams, Professor of Philosophy, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of Nieman Fellowships--each described one aspect of Perry's philosophy. Raphael Demos, Professor of Philosophy, presided over the symposium, which was held in Emerson...
Although the symposium is being sponsored by Bell Telephone Laboratories, I.B.M., R.C.A., and Sperry Rand Corp., most of the speakers will be from universities. Aiken expects, however, that between 60 and 70 percent of the guests will be from industry...
Howard H. Aiken, professor of Mathematics and director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory, said that he expects about 850 people to be at the symposium altogether, including speakers. The papers are being delivered by invitation only, thus assuring that the most distinguished experts in the world will be there, he explained...