Professor John C. Williams of the Classics Department giving a Horizons Lecture in 1976. Photo credit: Rich Sager

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. These lectures were also open to the public.

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 before.”

Though many students attended these lectures, opinions were split. In one Tripod editorial, the student-writer felt that giving credit for these lectures “corrupted” the program, creating a situation where some students would attend but not necessarily pay attention, some even playing cards during a lecture.

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 394.

Trinity Tripod, 02/08/1977.

Trinity Tripod, 11/02/1976.