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Three Educators Talk Over Values

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Three noted educators, in the fields of literature, the natural sciences, and the social sciences, spoke on "Values in the Western World" last night in Sanders Theatre at the first symposium in honor of the reunioning Class of 1927.

Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 introduced the speakers, and Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of History, acted as moderator.

Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, took as his subject "Truth in the Fine Arts." Decrying the instantaneous loss of past values and memories, Jones defined the Fine Arts as "Man's gallant protest against oblivion."

Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, stressed the discovery that the human animal is capable of engaging in science and his subsequent emotional involvement with the results of science, a community which thus "appears late in social evolution."

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