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Over 50 students met last night in Sever Hall to lay the foundations of the University Athenaeum, a Harvard counterpart to the Oxford Union. After discussing the "premier meeting" Sunday night, the group broke up into Conservative and Liberal caucuses to map plans for the floor debate over the question "Have the Intellectuals Sold Out America...
William Y. Elliott, Williams Professor of Government, will also address the group Sunday on the general purposes of the Athenaeum. Elliott participated in the Oxford Union while there as a Rhodes Scholar, and tried many years ago to organize such a group at the University...
Associate Dean Robert B. Watson is expected to approve the charter of the Athenaeum today, in the first attempt in 26 years to establish a University counter-part of the Oxford Union...
Over 70 students have applied for membership in the Athenaeum, which is Latin for "a school for oratory." They will meet Thursday night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room for election of member and planning of the initial debate...
Spokesman for the Athenaeum organization committee Hugh J. Schwartzburg '53 said last night that Peter Viereck, Pulitzer prize winning poet and author of the controversial "Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals," will address the Sunday meeting. Entitled "Have the Intellectuals Sold Out America?" the meeting will debate the resolution "that this house feels intellectuals have not opposed Stalinism as ardently as other brands of totalitarianism and thus encouraged a double standard of morality...