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Eight early poems of Eliot's are being reprinted together with a number of special articles and a symposium of critical appreciation. The poems, which appeared in the Advocate while Eliot was an undergraduate, were written in the period from 1907-1910, and are accompanied by a commentary on his early work by Lawrence B. Leighton, Instructor in Greek and Latin...
With President Conant as chairman, and three famed scientific authorities as principal speakers, a symposium is to be held at the Harvard Club of Boston next Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The general subject of the meeting is "Medicine and Life Today: A Discussion of Scientific Research and the Problems of Medicine...
...including nationalization of banks, property and labor. The Prime Minister's brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break a window...
...chemical symposium in Manhattan last week Dr. Kurt G. Stern of Yale announced that he had isolated a red pigment molecule from liver tissue which weighs 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 units. This is the biggest molecule ever found to be a normal part of vertebrate animals. It was extracted while Dr. Stern and his co-workers were purifying enzymes in a powerful centrifuge, which separates molecules of mixed weight by whirling them at high speed...
...cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness on the other, Welles has cut a clean if slightly winding road, has achieved a capital production...