Adams, Kirkland, Dunster Establish House Seminars

Several Houses have initiated a new program of seminars and tutorials this Fall in accordance with Dean Monro's plan to establish a broader intellectual experience for students not enrolled in regular departmental tutorials. The plan, administered independently by the respective Masters, varies greatly in format from House to House.

Although a few Houses have provided similar seminars in the past, this is the first year that the University has granted funds. Adams, Kirkland, and Dunster have developed the only definite plans for the Fall Term, but most of the others will institute groups in the Spring.

Crick to Teach

Adams House will offer five discussion groups open to all members of the House, but especially designed for non-Honors students and natural science concentrators. Bernard Crick of the University of London will lead a section on "The Delights and Dangers of Liberalism." He will consider such questions as "how can science flourish in illiberal regimes?" and "why are great poets always anti-liberal?"

Arthur Freeman 1G, Poet to the Class of 1959, will analyze "Poetry from the Inside Out." This group will discuss the writing of poetry and reading of it in terms of writing. Another seminar, "Literature and the Common Reader," is designed to promote more perceptive reading of poetry and fiction. Piers I. Lewis, teaching fellow in General Education, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, will lead this section.

Robert W. Haney, Adams House Librarian, will discuss the four Gospels, emphasizing the problems which they present to contemporary thought. Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation will lead "How to Read a News-paper" with Tatsuo Arima, resident tutor in Government. The group will compare the treatment of the news by such news-papers and magazines as the New York Times, the local press, the New York Herald Tribune, and Time.

Kirkland House will sponsor a discussion group regarding "Practical Criticism" of poetry. A. Alvarez, visiting professor at Brandeis and poetry editor of the British magazine Observer, will lead the seminar. The House will also enlarge its program of natural science tutorials, which it began several years ago.

Dunster will initiate three groups this Fall which will be open to all House members. Robert B. Richardson, Jr. will present "A Literary Approach to non-Literary Subjects." A discussion group led by Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, will cover topics in Government for students who have taken courses more advanced than Government 1.

Problems of contemporary Africa will receive attention in a seminar led by Essien-Udom Essien-Udom, teaching fellow in Government. Essien-Udom, a citizen of Nigeria, is currently on leave from the University of Chicago.