Word: symposia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cases in point are the Debating Society, the Council of Government Concentrators, the Guardian, the Progressive, the language clubs, the musical organizations, and many others. The Lowell House symposia were excellent examples of informal education at work. The Student Council, with its investigating committees; the Student Union, with its ideological crusades; even the Young Communist League, with its boyish delight in Klan mysticism, all are becoming inoculated with the habit of voluntary investigation, analysis, study--voluntary education...
...reservations on the Caravan. Who's next? "The Caravan choo choos along and picks up more Harvard men at each stop (see how it works)." No sooner settled in the deep South at their headquarters, the Hotel Roosevelt, the Harvard gentlemen will have to face three busy days. At symposia, business meetings, and graduate school seminars, such topics as "Youth Dons the Toga of Citizenship," "The Student helps the Dean" and "Shifting Postulates in Modern Legal Development" will carefully be disposed...
Such discussion groups should be arranged in a systematic way and on a larger scale. Natural student inertia must be overcome, and consequently it might be well, while preserving the substance of the "symposia," to mold them into a somewhat different form. Instead of waiting for occasional student inspirations, each House master in turn should be empowered to name a chairman, preferably a faculty man, at regular intervals. Participating students would then be chosen, not solely from one House, but from all seven--and from the dormitories as well. Without losing the informality which now so largely contributes...
This was the second of a series of symposia which aim to cross departmental lines by attacking broad subjects from a variety of points of view, The seven who spoke had studied their characters in order to present accurately their opinions, and on the basis of these speeches a discussion ensued in the audience made up largely of tutees in the different fields represented...
...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 on the success of next week's experiment; but it can safely be said that great possibilities for valuable and stimulating discussion are to be found in this...