Word: athenacum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...theatre was opened in 1843 as the Millerite Tabernacle of a now defunct seet. It then was re-christened the Howard Athenacum and became one of the leading legitimate theatres in the country. Gaining its present name, the Old Howard is now world famous for strip tease presentations. Rose LaRese noted laterpretative daneer, will be the last of the Howard's long line of greats...