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...Whether or not these gains transcend the losses," Brooks added at a Littauer Center symposium, "there will be another very great gain in a more universal appreciation of the value of science in national welfare that should mean more liberal support for scientific work...
Professor Bart J. Bok of the Harvard Observatory concluded the symposium by deploring the present attitude of scientists toward pan-Americanism, and suggested remedies...
...conflict of opinion as to how Germany should be treated in case she loses the war featured the first meeting of the Lowell House Symposium last night. Major Thomas Thomas, military analyst, and E.R. Halles, cable editor of the United Press, flung the verbal brickbats as they discussed anti-fascist military aims...
...symposium, held in the Lowell House Common Room, was the first of a series of similar lectures and discussions to be sponsored this year by Lowell House...
...Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned gen tlemen, like lesser citizens, disagreed on the issue...