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Speakers at the opening session Friday evening, in a symposium on "Can Education Help Democracy Survive?", will be President Conant, Dr. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, and Arthur N. Holcombe, Professor of Government...
There are three main organizations in the House, all of them active and two of them claiming members from other Houses. The Musical Society has just finished production of the seldom produced Purcell opera "King Arthur". Two meetings of the Social Science Symposium have produced lively discussions of Darwinism and Marxism. The Scientific Society is the only one of its kind in the Houses and is participated in by many out of House...
Long-winded monologues delivered at House dinners, poorly attended conferences of the American Civilization groups, sporadic inter-House debates--these were once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience...
...dramatizing of democracy that a really new attack on the subject is planned, for by combining the formal symposium and the method of dramatic presentation now used, the committee hopes to evolve a new technique, correlating the appeal of the dramatic presentation with the open discussion of the symposium...
Marx's position in the development of political thought during the last century was the subject of the inter-House symposium held in Lowell House last night. Including the fields of History, Government, and Philosophy, seven speakers impersonated typical characters of different periods, varying from a delegate to the International Workingmen's Association to Friedrich Engels...