Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...symposium is conducted on the question of reducing the length of the University boat race from four miles to three. The opinions of rowing experts, including former crew captains, are given and the unanimous verdict is that the present four-mile course is better for the man and the sport...
Athletics, always overemphasized in the University, receive a lion's share of attention in the Magazine. In addition to a complete record of all University sports, and the symposium on rowing just referred to, there is a leading article on "Athletics in the Schools," by Dr. J. L. Morse '87, who makes a plea for better supervision of school athletes. He urges that school boys take athletics less seriously and participate i them less strenuously. Dr. Morse, although his conclusions about the harmful effects of athletic specialization are undoubtedly logical, will probably find that his words fall on deaf ears...
...University. The morning service at Central Church, Berkeley and Newbury Streets, Boston, will be especially for the League, at which Professor J. W. Platner will preach. At 3 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, Dr. Martin Edwards will discuss the work of the Harvard Medical School in China. A symposium by foreign students in Central Church, Boston, at 7.30 o'clock will close the convention...
...Edwards, Medical School '08, of the Harvard Medical School in Shanghai; Dr. J. N. Mills of Washington, D. C.; Professor I. W. Platner; and Mr. J. C. Robbins, Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions in New York. At one of the meetings will be a symposium on mission work by foreign students in America...
...most significant athletic symposium of modern times will be pulled off this afternoon on the Freshman diamond shortly after the sun strikes four o'clock. At precisely that moment the Arterial Pen Pushers will attempt to spatter CRIMSON ink over the much-heralded Phi Beta Kappa nine...