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Just 16 men are to appear, top-flight biologists and physicists all, at a symposium. In one room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...
...Harvard committee in charge of arrangements for the symposium includes: Dr. LeRoy D. Fothergill, chairman; Dean Cecil K. Drinker; Philip Drinker; Dr. John E. Gordon; Dr. Edward G. Huber; and Dr. Charles F. McKhann
Rickettsial diseases are those associated with the presence of minute, parasitical microorganisms, believed to be transmitted largely by lice and ticks. They will be taken up at the symposium because they are sometimes associated with virus diseases, and until a few years ago there was some confusion between rickettsial conditions and those caused by virus agents...
...symposium next week, faculty members and former students of the School of Public Health and the Medical School will offer a series of lectures, demonstrations, clinics, and discussions on the etiology, epidemiology, and methods of control of some of the most important virus and rickettsial diseases. The attempt will be to bring together, through surveys of research and literature, the reliable results of investigation in this relatively new field up to the present time...
...symposium will meet each morning for lectures at Vanderbilt Hall. Afternoons will be given over to clinics and demonstrations at the Medical School laboratories and associated hospitals. Registration for the symposium will take place this weekend at the School of Public Health offices...