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With famous names like Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and unusual topics like "Theology in a Nuclear Age," the popularity of the symposia was inevitable...
...symposia, which consist almost exclusively of panel discussions moderated by Harvard professors, will begin at 2 p.m. today and will be held at six different time periods on September 4-7. Each seminar lasts approximately an hour and a half. Admission is free, but only ticket-holders will be admitted...
This time, however, academics won't be the only ones listening to winged-words at the symposia. The 350th birthday seminars will star members of the Harvard faculty, not outside specialists, and are aimed primarily at interested, intelligent laymen rather than other experts...
...Someone said to me that if you could attend all they symposia, it would be the equivalent to a Harvard education," Thomas W. Stephenson '37, the 350th coordinator, said earlier this summer. "[The symposia program] "will be a rich smorgasbord with an all-star class...
...Professor of Sociology Ezra F. Vogel notes that attending the symposia "would be more like attending the concluding lecture of 100 courses rather than getting the depth of 32 half courses...