Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of them all will be to show that the common foundation for art and in great measure the inspiration for it has been religious ecstacy. The emotion that drives men to create beautiful things is basically the same as that which makes them worship a diety. The symposium will tend to bring out the fact that art is a form of worship...
Dean Edgell, when interviewed yesterday, said, "The first dictionary definition of a symposium is 'thinking party'. I shall limit my contribution to this 'party' to a discussion of how religion is expressed in architecture, sculpture and painting. In proving these various instances, I shall have a dozen or more slides for illustration...
...symposium has been arranged by the Lecture Committee of Phillips Brooks House, in accordance with its plans...
...symposiums should be especially interesting to college men," declared C. G. T. Lundell '27 yesterday, "inasmuch as they bring together at one time leaders in several branches of thought, to share their views on a common subject. The audience is in the position of an impartial judge, able to select the best opinions and judge the correct point of view. The speakers have to condense into the time allowed them the outstanding facts in their field, Accordingly, the symposium constitutes a resume of several subjects presented in a brief and attractive...
...meeting will be in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening and will be open to all members of the University. The symposium is the first of its kind to be presented at Harvard or any other college in the country, and marks a definite advance in further popularizing the Phillips Brooks lecture course