Word: mensa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting's three main speakers spoke of the Negro leader in glowing terms. Dr. Kweku Mensa Akude of the Ghanaian mission to the U.N. called DuBois "one of the giants of this century...
...were, around Boston is a bearded, 23-year-old Englishman who now lives in Revere named Laurie van Someren. Van Someren directed the 30-member Mensa chapter at Cambridge University while an undergraduate there is Trinity College. Already, he told me, there is a nucleus of 12 M's in the Boston area, and the hopes to attract 20 or 30 more, including undergraduates, to make possible fairly regular meetings. What does Mensa do, I wondered...
...promote contact between highly intelligent people. The typical meeting in England take place in a restaurant of pub, and often includes the reading of a paper and discussion afterward. Frequently there is no planned program for a meeting, and talk will swirl freely over the beer bottles. The Mensa chapter from Leeds spent a recent weekend cooking and camping out in the Lake Country. But true to the spirit of Mensa, the outing took the form of a conference; and the theme, as their notice expressed it, "will be appropriate to the more or less primal scene in which...
Besides the meetings, Mensa collects information about high-I.Q. people by means of questionnaires circulated periodically among the members. The Research Committee has made surveys of members' attitudes in such matters as capital punishment, politics...
Applicants must score about 150 on the self-administered Cattell Intelligence Test to be admitted into Mensa. For $3 the Selection Committee sends the result of the test, whether...