THE ART SYMPOSIUM

The most significant event of the month was the Art Symposium on the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation. In fact few people appreciated the true importance of this symposium or realized that it was a distinct innovation in a field hitherto almost untouched by the colleges.

In almost every other field of science and culture the colleges are out in front and are constantly stepping forward. But in art they have hardly taken the initiative at all. The principal thing which this symposium, which was on "The Issues of Modern Art," did was to show the need for further investigation and study. This was about all the speakers could agree upon, except that they were all enthusiastic about the Orozco murals.

The men conducting the symposium, all leaders in their fields, were John Dewey, Frank Jewett Mather Jr., Max Eastman, and Edward F. Rothschild.

Undergraduate interest ran high all through the four days devoted to the talks, although many students were disappointed at the vagueness of the final conclusions.

Other interesting speakers during the month were Robert Frost, "New England Poet Laureate," who read and talked about his own poems, and Countess Alexandra Tolstoi, who lectured about her distinguished father and other Russian writers. Both of these speakers were brought here by the Junto, which has vigorously come to life of late.