File 10 - "No - Universities etc. M1"

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Comprises letters from, and on behalf of, educational establishments asking Bronowski to lecture, speak at and participate in events, with replies declining.

Correspondents are: Maclester College (Minnesota) inviting Bronowski to participate in a seminar on the 'Chemical Revolution' (1969); Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (Purchase, New York) inviting Bronowski to give a lecture at a seminar for honors students from colleges and universities of the Greater New York area (1965); Maryville College (Tennessee) asking Bronowski to give a lecture at the opening ceremony for a new science building (1968); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student lecture committee inviting Bronowski to lecture at MIT (1968); MIT Department of City and Regional Planning inviting Bronowski to be the speaker at the main event of the first Summer Session Course on 'Religion and Community Cooperation in Planning, Housing and Architecture' (1965) with a leaflet about the course; MIT inviting Bronowski to participate in an international conference on scientific and engineering education (1961) with a memo from the conference steering committee; K S Butler of the Foreign Office (United Kingdom) asking Bronowski if he would lecture at the University of Massachusetts for their centennial year (1962-63); McGill University (Montreal, Canada) inviting Bronowski to speak at a conference on 'The Universities and Society' (1971); University of Miami asking Bronowski to speak to the Friends of the University Library (1965); and The University of Michigan asking Bronowski to visit the Dearborn campus and speak to students (1966).

Also includes: a note from [one of Bronowski's secretaries] that they had refused (by telephone) a request from Madison High School for Bronowski to speak on 'Man in the Scientific World' (1969); and an invitation from MIT to a symposium and symposium dinner for the joint dedications of the Center for Theoretical Physics and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1968), annotated that they had been declined.

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