Word: atheneum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council last night approved the charter of the Harvard Atheneum, the University's answer to the Oxford Union and Yale Political Union...
...Atheneum, Latin for "a school for oratory," was the name picked Sunday night by a group of representatives of University political and debating organizations, the House Committees and the Student Council...
According to the charter the aim of the Atheneum is "to foster and perpetuate rhetoric and oratory by sponsoring an intelligent and responsible quolloquia of the articulate members of the Harvard Community and distinguished guests...
Spokesmen for the Atheneum planning committee, Roger A. Moore '53 and Milton S. Gwirtzman '54, said last night College and graduate students interested in joining the group should consult the Notice Column of the CRIMSON this week. They also announced the first meeting had tentatively been scheduled for April...
...Atheneum has gone modern in other ways. It started out more of a club than a public museum, open only to those able to pay 25? (the price of a gallon of whisky in those days) for a look. The gallery was deserted, and the first curator complained bitterly that "to hoard up and secrete works of art is an offence against humanity." The Atheneum long ago dropped admission charges. Last week, to make the Atheneum's invitation to the public as informal as possible, a loudspeaker in the court boomed out When It's Springtime...