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...guest of honor and principal speaker the symposium featered George R. Agassiz '84, a past president of the Board of Overseers. Descended from a line of celebrated scientists, Agassiz was well qualified to talk on the contributions to the study of Darwin's theory by his father Alexander '55 and his grandfather Louis...
Described as "a new experiment in inter-field study and discussion," an undergraduate symposium on the repercussions of the Darwinian theory will be presented tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Seven Lowell House students will take the parts of typical and outstanding characters of the nineteenth century presenting the reactions of biologists, economists, theologians, historians, and philosophers, to the Darwinian hypotheses...
Contributing to the Symposium are: Conrad Aiken '11 (who was an editor of the Advocate at the same time as Eliot); Howard Baker, poet and Instructor in English; Richard Eberhart, poet and teacher of English at St. Mark's School, South borough; Robert T.S. Lowe '11; Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection; Merrill Moore, sonneteer and Associate in Psychiatry; George Marion O'Donell, Frederick Prokosch, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, all prominent contemporary writers...
When the Lowell House undergraduate symposium takes place next week, a significant protest against overspecialization will, consciously or not, have been recorded. Not only because of its interesting subject matter but also because of the novel method of presentation, the symposium should be a success...
...problem of too narrow fields of concentration such schemes as the Lowell House symposium provide a partial solution. Around the subject of Darwinian theory have been gathered scientists, historians, theologians, economists, and philosophers. By arranging for each student to present the ideas of some influential or typical thinker of the 1850's, everyone participating will presumably gain the viewpoint of all the rest. If such a program can be built about this subject, other equally valuable symposia could be held on the American Civil War, for example, or on the political repercussions of the industrial revolution. Much will depend...