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| ====== Horizons Lecture Program ====== | ====== Horizons Lecture Program ====== |
| [{{ ::screen_shot_2022-06-27_at_9.14.31_am.png?350|Professor John C. Williams of the Classics Department giving a Horizons Lecture in 1976. Photo credit: Rich Sager}}] | |
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| Beginning in the 1976-1977 academic year, the Horizons Lecture Series was a weekly lecture on a variety of topics under the guidance of English Professor J. Bard McNulty '38. The program was created in an attempt to expand students' breadth of knowledge beyond the subject of their major. | [{{ ::screen_shot_2022-06-27_at_9.14.31_am.png?350|Professor John C. Williams of the Classics Department giving a Horizons Lecture in 1976. Photo Credit: Rich Sager}}] |
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| The lectures carried credit and were given by different faculty, allowing students to learn beyond the classroom. McNulty described this as, "a gargantuan feast in which they can sample dishes never available | Beginning in the 1976-1977 academic year, the Horizons Lecture Series was a weekly Tuesday-night lecture on a variety of current topics under the guidance of English Professor J. Bard McNulty '38. The program was endorsed by the Educational Policy Committee in an attempt to expand students' breadth of knowledge beyond the subject of their majors. These lectures were also open to the public. |
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| Lectures were open to the public and became quite popular with Hartford residents. Among students, though many attended, opinions were split. In one Tripod editorial, the student-writer felt that giving credit for these lectures "corrupted" the program, arguing that students, when finished with homework, no longer want to think. Instead, the writer believes, students took advantage of the opportunity. | The lectures required no registration, carried credit, and were given by faculty across 23 disciplines, allowing students to learn beyond the classroom and their particular fields of study. McNulty described this as, "a gargantuan feast in which they can sample dishes never available before." Faculty as well, was afforded the opportunity to learn about what colleagues were working on in their respective fields. |
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| | Though many students attended these lectures, opinions were split. In one //[[tripod|Trinity Tripod]]// editorial, the student-writer felt that giving credit for these lectures "corrupted" the program, creating a situation where students would attend but not necessarily pay attention, some even playing cards during a lecture. |
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| | The Horizon lectures ran for the intended two full semesters, as well as the 1977-1978 academic year. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 394. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 394. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2075&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod, 02/08/1977]]. | [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29907967|Trinity Tripod]], 02/08/1977. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod, 11/02/1976]]. | [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29907959|Trinity Tripod]], 11/02/1976. |
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| | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/269/|Trinity Reporter]], March/April 1976. |
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