Word: athenaeum
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...center around to extremes: raucous bull-sessions at one end, and academic lectures at the other. Generally unheard are the sounds of students arguing with students in large, organized meetings. Yale has its Political Union, and Princeton its Senate, but Harvard has only the memory of an ill-fated Athenaeum...
Although no definite outline as yet exists for this kind of parliamentary discussion, there are a few principles which should guide a successful forum at Harvard. First, there is no need for a new, chartered organization. The Athenaeum of several years ago disappeared largely because it attempted to bypass the existing political groups. These groups should form the basis for any larger political forum, because they already encompass most people interested in this kind of debate. In addition, topics for such a meeting should cut across party lines, so that the Young Republicans and Young Democrats are not always...
Although the city's leading burlesque athenaeum, the Old Howard, will soon become a parking lot, its former arch competitor, the Casino, has subtlety begun to streamline its vaudeville acts...
Since the demise of the Athenaeum two years ago Harvard has had no political forum. During a checkered career Harvard's Athenaeum occasionally featured outside speakers like Peter Viereck who provided meetings that were, at least, controversial. But these were the exception. The rule was poorly attended discussions on uninteresting topics. After the graduation of its organizers, the Athenaeum died...
...avoid the fate that met its predecessor any discussion group at Harvard must have outside speakers as well as discussion. It also needs the organization that the Athenaeum lacked. To get both it would need the support of Harvard's currently existing political clubs...