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Leading the way in House educational activities, Winthrop begins this evening at 7 o'clock the first in a series of symposia on Dante's "Divine Comedy." Experimental in nature, the symposia, to be held in the Senior Common Room, are limited exclusively to Winthrop House members.
GE Extension
Billed as "an extension of General Education," the symposium will spend 12 Tuesday evenings delving into the theological, scientific, literary, and classical backgrounds of the poem. One half hour will be devoted to lecture, another to a discussion period, and the third half hour to a reading of selected passages.
Lecturers include Francis M. Rogers, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Senior tutor of Winthrop, who will direct the series, Theodore Spencer, Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Ivor A. Richards, University Professor.
Copies of a prospectus of the series have been mimeographed and distributed to House members, together with the text of the "Divine Comedy" recommended. No knowledge of Italian is required.
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