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| ====== Horizons Lecture Program ====== | ====== Horizons Lecture Program ====== |
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| [{{ ::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}}] | [{{ ::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 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. | 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|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. | 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. | The Horizon lectures ran for the intended two full semesters, as well as the 1977-1978 academic year. |
| [[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. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/269/|Trinity Reporter]], March/April 1976. |
