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Last week the smart Plaza Trust Co., Manhattan, held a symposium on banking at which a speaker estimated that 41% of U. S. wealth belongs to women. Since many a woman prefers womanly advice. Wall Street brokers noted the figure with interest, wondered if the number of women in finance will increase. Significant, however, seemed the fact that the firm of Sartorius & Smith, in which Helen Smith Sartorius and Carrie F. Smith are special partners, last week filed a notice with the Stock Exchange that it will dissolve March 31, reorganize April 1, without the women...
From the Sorbonne, Paris, France Monsieur Leon Robin, Professor of Ancien Philosophie, comes to Harvard to lecture during the first half year on Plato's Symposium and the philosophy of Plato. Wolfgang Liepe will come from the University of Kiel to lecture on the life and work of Hebbel and to give a graduate course in the poetry of the 18th century in Germany...
LABOR SPEAKS FOR ITSELF ON RELIGION -A Symposium Edited by Jerome Davis -Macmillan...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...
...divorce in Sonora. B) Three new grounds were added: 1) Mutual consent (Senor del Toro avoids this ground because U. S. courts might consider that it smacks of collusion). 2) Irreconcilable incompatibility. 3) Absence of marital relations for more than six months. The Sonora law is now a symposium of "grounds for divorce" so complete that, in the opinion of Señor del Toro, it will be found applicable to almost any couple really mismated...