Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next morning, Monday, classmates, their wives, and their college-age children attended a "Harvard Today" symposium in Science Center B. Derek Bok, honorary classmate, was the moderator...
Mondale spoke at a symposium on higher education in Longfellow Hall...
...could-and often did-make this statement without fear of challenge. Now, however, those who do are likely to meet with a demurrer, even from within the scientific community. No one believes the U.S. has lost its overall advantage in science and technology. But scientists attending a two-day symposium sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Washington last week agreed that the U.S. lead has diminished drastically in the past decade and could erode entirely if the nation does not take some serious-and speedy-steps to stay ahead. Said M.I.T. President Jerome B. Wiesner...
Some skeptics reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more...
...symposium's Saturday schedule includes workshops run by prominent figures in American education, one of whom is former Cambridge School Superintendant Alflorence Cheatham, Paul A. Perry, executive secretary of the school's alumni association, said yesterday...