Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Though drastic censorship precluded exact knowledge of what was taking place, a symposium of rumors confirmed reports that His Majesty had proclaimed the termination of all "reforms"-such as the edict requiring men to wear pants (TIME, Sept. 10)-and was making desperate efforts to rally his troops and recover the loyalty of his people as a whole...