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...your article on transfer students (The Crimson, April 9), you quote a student, Griffith Marton, saying that he found a reluctance among his fellow students and staff to discuss such questions as the purpose of East Asian studies. As Grif Marton knows, there has been a special weekly colloquium in East Asian Studies to discuss precisely such questions. Mr. Marton has not once attended. This is, of course, his privilege, but I marvel that a student could say that because he does not participate, it does not exist. Ezra F. Vegel, Chairman Committee on the A.B. Degree In East Asian...
Four female political activists disagreed yesterday at a Radcliffe Institute Colloquium over campaign strategies women should use in the political arena...
Next Monday, at its opening session, the colloquium will focus on the subject of leisure activity during the Depression. The featured film of the evening is Easy Living (1937), one of the most successful of the "goofy comedies" that Hollywood was able to sell to Depression audiences. It's hardly the kind of movie one would expect scholars to analyze. But by watching the film critically with certain questions in mind, one can come up with some interesting hypotheses about life...
Speculation about a film's audience is only one way to use a film as an historical document. One can also learn by examining the economic and ideological motives of the film-makers. Included in the colloquium's schedule are films by various government agencies as well as films by radical film-makers working outside the commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with...
...History Film Colloquium will meet on six consecutive Monday evenings, beginning October 28, in Science Center B, at 7:45 p.m. The $5.00 enrollment fee must be submitted in advance, by mail or in person, to Film Colloquium, Robinson 201. Tickets for individual showings will not be mail or in person, to Film Colloquium, Robinson 201. Tickets for individual showings will not be available...