Word: athenacum
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...structures closer every week, Boston historical societies are redoubling their efforts to save buildings of historical importance from the wrecking crews. Perhaps newest among these societies is The Howard National Theater and Museum Committee, whose members are determined to preserve a former hot-spot of Boston burlesque, the Howard Athenacum, known more affectionately to those whose heart was lost there, as the Old Howard...
...began. The dominant group at this meeting was the "independent" faction which felt it could not fit into the official "Conservative" or "Liberal" categories. By the following Fall it was possible to count the total membership of each party on one hand. Soon even a hand was unnecessary--the Athenacum didn't die, it merely disappeared...
...nearly 1000, the new "political club forum" has a fine opportunity to found a successful parliamentary group. Assuming general support from all the political clubs, the new parliament will have the advantage of sustained membership as well as plans designed to evade the major weak points of the Athenacum...
...selection of poor discussion topics drove away large numbers of supporters. One of the Athenacum's final meetings discussed "advertising," a subject only slightly less void of general interest than the University's football finances...
...talk to the Athenacum Sunday night, Peter Viereck pounded home the idea that liberal intellectuals still can't bring themselves to hate Communism as much as Hitlerism. As the audience filed out of the hall and into the Square for late snacks, they saw something which did more than all the evening's debate to show that Viereck's indictment held true for but a small number of present "eggheads...