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Professor Ralph P. Boas of Wheaton College will be the toastmaster at the luncheon meeting which will follow at 1 o'clock. After dinner a symposium on the subject: "Should English teachers welcome the filming of standard novels and plays as an aid to the appreciation of English literature?" is to be held; the points of view of the student, the teacher and the public will be presented...
FROM ROUSSEAU TO PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock...
...American College of Surgeons continued to ignore him by failing to give him a place in their cancer symposium. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., the ingoing president of the College, anticipating Dr. Coffey's argument, simply said: "Cancer is curable if it is removed while it is a local disease. Cure of cancer by advertised extracts, serums, and so forth is a myth...
...Youth" is the subject for a political symposium to be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, under the auspices of the Greater Boston Regional American Youth Congress...
...reassembling the elements. It might have been better to look for a compound which would serve the purpose of rubber rather than duplicate its composition. The synthetic rubber which grew out of the Nieuwland researches is 40% chlorine, not an ingredient of natural rubber at all. At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton was there, suspected that if the monovinyl could be similarly produced, artificial rubber was at hand. Acetylene, from...