MacLeish and Acheson.

The seniors who voluntarily turned out in large numbers to hear (and pay tribute to) Archibald MacLeish and Dean Acheson, the first two speakers in the 1966-67 Senior Symposia, were well rewarded. MacLeish and Acheson were rewarded too, for the men of the Class of 1967 gave each a standing ovation at the conclusion of his talk.

Poet MacLeish spoke to the seniors about "a change in the attitude toward man, toward what a man is, which seems to me to have taken place, and to have taken place dramatically and rather surprisingly in a very short period of time, perhaps 20 years." In addition to his Spaulding Auditorium address MacLeish also answered questions posed by a panel of students, met with an English Department creative writing class, and read from his own poetry to another large gathering in the Hopkins Center's big auditorium.

Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave what the student newspaper headlined as both a pragmatic and idealistic "overview" of international and national problems, as seen by a man who has been intimately involved in many of the great issues of contemporary times. In his second session with the seniors, Acheson responded to a wide range of questions from apartheid to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.