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...this year's Colloquium, which brought together more than 150 Catholic and Protestant churchmen. Dean Miller called the Colloquium a "superb success," and saw in its format of public lectures and panel discussions "a method of introducing into our School a dialogue with many different fields." Among the colloquia which he suggested the Divinity School might sponsor were a symposium on contemporary business ethics, a discussion of the relationship between ministers and psychiatrists, and an examination of the theological significance of modern novels...
...records and finish the 13th volume of his masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth (TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval, and receives a constant stream of visitors, ranging from old pastoral friends to a delegation of Swiss prohibitionists. "I told them," says Barth, sipping vermouth...
...History Department has, in a limited and clearly experimental way, shown a beautiful flexibility. It has initiated new credit colloquia to replace the 100-level courses now required of first year graduate students in American and modern European history...
...These colloquia promise to provide the student with more time to explore his particular area of interest and to work with the senior faculty of his department. They would also be more effective than the 100-level courses in equipping the student with the core of material which the department regards as necessary...
Wolff said, however, that all the senior professors would not be present at every meeting of the colloquia, but would probably attend a good proportion of the time...