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...modern science estimates the millions of years that have elapsed since the beginning of the universe, the earth and life on the earth will be described by three prominent scientists in the fields of astronomy, geology, and biology in a public "Symposium on Time Scales" at 8 o'clock tonight in the New Lecture Hall...
...speeches will take the form of a symposium rather than a debate. At the conclusion there will be opportunity for questions...
Since the proceedings will assume the form of a symposium or forum, the speakers, instead of debating, will engage in an informal discussion of current national and international problems...
Public recognition of Dr. George E. Hale's contributions to astronomy will be made at a symposium to be held at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon at the University observatory. Best known as director and founder of the Mt. Wilson Observatory and director of the Yerkes Observatory, Hale's principal contributions have been in the fields of solar and stellar spectroscopy...
Others who will take part are President-emeritus Lowell and Sir Arthur Eddington from the University of Cambridge. There will be five symposia during the two weeks. Papers on the physical sciences and biology will be read in the first two. The third symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior" will collaborate different aspects of biological sciences, social sciences, and the humanities...