Mcallen Daily Press

LARGER RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE BEING SOUGHT

Chicago U. Will Be Host To 1,000 Scholars On September 22-29

CHICAGO, Sept 6-(UP)-Promise of receiving latest first-hand reports from the "frontiers of learning and research" is expected to attract a thousand of the nation's leading scholars and scientists to the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary celebration during the last week of September.

Beginning Monday, Sept. 22, a five-day symposium will climax several score of lesser programs which the university has sponsored this year in conjunction with its bi-centennial celebration.

More than 160 guest speakers—drawn from 33 American and foreign universities, five government organizations, nine research laboratories and one museum—will deliver addresses at the symposiums.

Eight Groups Represented

Eight sections—humanities law, business, religion, social service, and the biological physical and social sciences—will run concurrently. Sessions in the biological and physical sciences will be sponsored jointly by the university and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Symposium subjects will range in scope from "the Social Implications of Vitamins" to "the Text of the Alexander Romance as an Index to Medieval Textual Theories."

Other lecture titles include: "Coercion, Associations and the State Among the Plains Indians," "Synergetic Aspects of Bacterial Population," "the Four Roles of Business Management in Our Economic Society," "Philosophy coverer of vitamin B1: Charles D. Politics in Shakespeare's Tragedies," and "Pathological Changes in visually Induced Behavior."

Hu Shih To Speak

Guest speakers at the symposiums will include Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Robert S. Millikan and Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel prize winners in physics; Robert R. Williams, discoverer of vitamin B1; Charles H. Best, Canadian co-discoverer of insulin, and Jacques Maritain, leading French neo-Thomist philosopher.

Amado Alonzo, director of the University of Buenos Aires' institute of philosophy which is recognized as the world's leading center for the study of Spanish, will address the humanities section on "Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum." Another South American, Carlos Monge, professor of medicine at the University of San Marcos (Peru), who is recognized as the world's greatest expert on high-altitude diseases, will report on "Chronic Mountain Sickness."

Following the symposia program a three-day academic festival will bring the university anniversary celebration to a close.

Alumni To Attend

On Saturday, Sept. 27 alumni will assemble for a special program and Sunday President Robert M. Hutchins and his wife will greet delegates from 450 institutions of higher learning at a special reception. A chapel service and an outdoor concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra also are scheduled for Sunday.