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Bruce Bliven, President and Editor of the New Republic will open the Harvard Inquiry's serial symposium on "What the Depression Reveals about the Need for Long-run Changes," in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Bliven, who will be introduced by Professor Frankfurter, will speak on "What the Campaign Reveals about the Depression...
...regular business meeting will be held at the Observatory starting at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. At this time reports of officers and committees will be received and submitted, and general business matters of the Association acted upon. An eclipse symposium will follow the conclusion of general business. The morning session will adjourn following this meeting...
...Manhattan, at a symposium in connection with an exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...
Members of the University who will address the societies are J. C. Dunham, O. K. Rice, M. H. Johnson, Jr. '29, H. M. Smallwood, Professor E. L. Chaffee '11, William Duane '93, and Professor P. W. Bridgeman. Professor Chaffee will be chairman of the symposium on "Electronic Devices and their Applications to Research with Special Reference to Radiation Sensitive Devies", while Professor Bridgeman is to lecture on "Anomalies in the Behavior of Solids under Pressure", on Saturday at Pierce Hall. Both the latter sessions should be understandable by the average student...
Favorite current means of suicide is jumping from high places; 15 years ago and earlier, favorite and almost exclusive agencies were gas and pistols. This was George P. Lebrun's contribution to the League's symposium. Mr. Lebrun is chief clerk of New York City's medical examiner's office. His records show that 21,518 people have killed themselves wittingly in New York City the past 25 years. The year average before 1920 was 750. Last year the number was 1,478. Up to Oct. 1 this year...