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...Mensa has continued to retreat from the grandiose conception of 1945. But if the club has thrown overboard Berrill's dream that it might chart England's future, intellectual democracy has had its compensations. After a long period of stagnancy, membership has boomed tenfold since 1958, so that today there are 2,000 members. In the last year, a small platoon of advance guards have infiltrated this country and have already set up a flourishing chapter in New York, and are organizing a new group in the Boston area...
...gather some of Harvard's eggheads into their basket, local M's, as they call themselves, ran this ad in the classified section of the CRIMSON a few days ago: "ARE YOU UNUSUALLY INTELLIGENT? Existing members wish to enlarge group for diverse discussions, social activities, and studies. Apply Mensa, 74 Tudor St., Waltham, Mass...
...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...