Forum speakers promote democratic education and student independence
Mrs Mortimer Roths and Mr Mortimer Smith spoke for parental involvement at the BC Forum, urging that children learn civic responsibility alongside reading. Miss Sylvia Bacon of Vassar outlined a plan to teach thinking, foster student self reliance, and link advanced study to later life with community support, as Dean Millicent C. McIntosh wrapped up the meeting.
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Mortimer Rothschild
Board of Education
Scarsdale
Mortimer Smith
Sylvia Bacon
Vassar
Millicent C. McIntosh
James Speaks on Melville and Moby Dick’s Implications
C L James lectured at McMillin Theatre on Melville and Moby Dick. He argued Ishmael as a modern intellectual rejecting American life, Captain Ahab as the will in madness, and Melville’s focus on personality integration amid Descartes and Shakespeare influences.
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James
Melville
Herman Melville
C. L. R. James
McMillin Theatre
Mr. James
Toussaint L’ouverture
Institute of Arts and Sciences
Moby Dick
Captain Ahab
Descartes
Shakespeare
Ahab
On Campus Newman Club Brotherhood Program Tomorrow
On Campus Newman Club will hold a Brotherhood Program tomorrow after noon at 4 in the Dodge Room of Earl Hall. Thursday Noon Meeting for Meditation and Discussion resumes February 28 with Father George Ford leading the session.
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Newman Club
Dodge
Earl Hall
George Ford
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church
Reinhold Niebuhr
University Christian Association
James A. Pike
Jake
Claire Delage
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