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...Lowell House symposium in scheduled for tonight the second in a series of lectures designed to demonstrate the usefulness of the inter departmental tutorial system. Granville Hicks, fellow in American History, will be the guest speaker on the subject of the evening. "Karl Marx, and his influence on the thought of his time...
...this strange new symposium, an encouraging 13 to 14 of every 100 listeners stay tuned in Sunday nights. But the rigors of getting the script in shape and the renewed clamor that radio work takes some of the twinkle out of cinema stars have had an effect on the players themselves. Last week, with Lombard, Grant and Tibbett scheduled to be off, Ronald Colman asked for. and got, release from his contract. This left last Sunday's show in a bad spot. Grant was lured back, Basil Rathbone rounded up. The show went on, distinguished mainly by the singing...
Five members of the Harvard Observatory staff will be among the ten scientists speaking in a symposium on "Progress in Astrophysics" in Philadelphia Friday under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the Franklin Institute...
They could not speak out, but last week several retired officers did so in a symposium published by the United States News. Gruffest was Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who last September directed a blast at the New Deal when he retired. Last week he wrote: "Much of our present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power...
...should like to thank you for your report of the Lowell House Symposium on evolution and for your admirable editorial on the subject. In chronicling my own brief remarks and ignoring the names and speeches of the actual participants, however, you failed to do justice to the undergraduate members whose show it was. If considerations of space required the cutting of the story, as I suppose, the gravy could have been spared better than the meat. The success of the symposium was owing entirely to Messrs. John D. Adams, Nathaniel Banfield, John Bonner, John Brainard, Irwin Clark, Vinton Dearing...