FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: “Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution,” a symposium, was presented by the Fine Arts Department on April 25–26. Rudolf Wittkower, Columbia University, was chairman. James Ackerman, Harvard University, spoke on “The Gesu in Rome and the New Church Style of the Mid-Sixteenth Century.” Other speakers were René Taylor, Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico, “Villalpando, Solomon's Temple and Hermeticism in the Jesuit Society,” Howard Hibbard, Columbia University, “The Painted Decorations of the Gesu: Iconography and Influence“; Rev. Thomas Culley, S. J., Brown University, “The German College in Rome: A Musical Center of Jesuits During the Seventeenth Century”; Per Bjurstrom, National Museum, Stockholm, “The Baroque Theatre and the Jesuits“; Francis Haskell, Oxford University, England, “The Role of Patrons: Baroque Style Changes.” Following a series of round-table discussions, there was a concert of Baroque music. Irma Jaffe, Chairman of the Department informs us that the response to the symposium was highly enthusiastic, the symposiasts expressed their great satisfaction, and “the concert was glorious.”