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...meeting will close, with a symposium on 'Religion and Education" in which a Catholic priest, a Jewist rabbi, and a Congregational minister will all speak. Men representing all these religious denominations have spoken before in the Phillips Brooks House at different times but never has a symposium been held in which all of these denominations have joined in discussing the same subject...
...MARRIAGE without obstacles isn't tempting . . ." wrote the playwright. And now marriage with all its obstacles is even less tempting. Count Keyserling, in his symposium, The Book of Marriage, raises no new cry, stampedes no staid world, but comes instead to a world in chaos, and to a subject of the greatest controversial significance, bringing with him the judgment of "twenty four leaders of contemporary thought...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses of world cancer authorities who came to the International Symposium on Cancer Control at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., last September (TIME, Oct. 4) and to solicit more donations...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick on "The Future of the Church." In addition to these speakers, Raymond Robins spoke on "The Outlawry of War," Prof. A. T. Davison, Prof. J. L. Lowes, and Prof. G. H. Edgell held and Dr. J. R. Straton with Prof. K. F. Mather gave a symposium on "Science and Religion". District Attorney Bucknor gave a lecture for law men, and Dr. G. B. MacGrath a lecture for medical men. The average attendance for all of these meetings has been about three hundred...
Clark University's symposium on ghosts (TIME, Dec. 13), drew to a close. Frederick Bligh Bond, British psychic researcher and architect, described the helpful conduct of a departed spirit during excavating work at mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey...