Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Youth for Democracy enters the nightly extracurricular lecture field on Wednesday night when its magazine, The New Student, presents the first of a series of ten lectures in a Symposium on Contemporary American Culture. According to an announcement last night by Edward A. Siegler '48, director of the series, playwright James Gow will open the symposium with a program on the drama in Emerson...
According to William Labov '48, editor of the New Student, the symposium is designed to supplement the purposes of the HYD's magazine which is scheduled to reach the news-stands on November 13. Featuring articles on politics and other fields, the New Student plans to present "original progressive thinking and detailed experience of students...
Billed as "an extension of General Education," the symposium will spend 12 Tuesday evenings delving into the theological, scientific, literary, and classical backgrounds of the poem. One half hour will be devoted to lecture, another to a discussion period, and the third half hour to a reading of selected passages...
Forums will again constitute a major part of the Council's effort, with a symposium on freedom of the press already being planned. Last year the Council brought to the College many leading diplomats, including Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jan Masaryk...
...fact, says British Poet-Novelist Leonard A. G. Strong, that many children enter school with a natural liking for poetry and are taught to dislike it. Who is to blame? Why, the poetry teachers, answers Strong, who has been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have connected...