Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Tue, February 2, 1988
Loren Smith, professor of law, University of Delaware; author, Judicialization of the Administrative Process: The Fine Print (1986) and co-author, Black America and Organized Labor: A Fair Deal? (1979); "Federal Election Laws" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, January 27, 1988
Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; author, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959) and The Conditions of Freedom (1975); "A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War and the Bicentennial of the Constitution"
 
Tue, January 26, 1988
CMC Student Philosophy Colloquium, "Philosophy Today"
 
Mon, January 25, 1988
John Maguire, president, Claremont Graduate School; Cornish Rogers, professor of pastoral theology, School of Theology, Claremont; "Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance"
 
Wed, November 18, 1987
Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Land's End (1979) and California! (1980); "Fascist/Communist Minesis: The Depression in California"
Tue, November 17, 1987
Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service professor of the history of modern Christianity, University of Chicago; senior editor, The Christian Century; author, Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (1985) and Baptism (1962); "The Constitution and the Congregation"
Mon, November 16, 1987
Alfred Malabre, Jr., news editor, The Wall Street Journal; author, Understanding the Economy: For People Who Can't Stand Economics (1976) and Beyond Our Means (1987); "Within Our Means"
Sat, November 14, 1987
Marc Plattner, director of program, National Endowment for Democracy; author, Rousseau's State of Nature (1979) and editor, Human Rights in Our Time (1984); Gary Evans, professor of humanities and social science, Harvey Mudd College; co-author, Macroeconomics (1984); "Natural Rights and the Moral Presuppositions of Political Economy" (9:00 a.m. Bauer Forum)
Fri, November 13, 1987
James Buchanan, Jr., Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1986); professor of economics, University of Chicago; author, The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan (1975) and The Demand and Supply of Public Goods (1968); Viktor Vanberg, Center for Study of Public Choice; Allan Bloom, professor of economics, University of Chicago; author, Closing of the American Mind (1987) and co-author, Shakespeare as Political Thinker (1981); "Rational Order and Moral Order" (9:00 a.m. Bauer Forum)
Thu, November 12, 1987
Irving Howe, professor of English, Hunter College; author, Leon Trotsky (1978) and Thomas Hardy (1985); "The Crisis of American Liberalism"
Wed, November 11, 1987
Bonnie Snortum, piano; Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet, professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Elmer Tolsted, cello; "Chamber Music: Bach, Ravel, Debussy, and Beethoven"
Tue, November 10, 1987
Irving Howe, professor of English, Hunter College; author, World of Our Fathers (1976) and Socialism and America (1985); "The End of Jewish Secularism" (McKenna Auditorium)
Mon, November 9, 1987
Rob Kling, professor of computer science, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Government (1982); "Computers and Work from a Social Perspective"
Wed, November 4, 1987
Forest Pogue, biographer; author, The Supreme Command (1954) and George C. Marshall: Education of a General (1963); "40th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan: Leadership of General Marshall" (4:00 p.m.)
Wed, October 28, 1987
John Irving, novelist; author, The Water-Method Man (1972) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1981); "To Be a Writer" (12:30 p.m.)

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