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selves, the forlorn hope of humanity, plunging headlong into the un–
fathomable night only that we by the bridge of their desecrated forms
might eventually pass over its hideous -abysses into the realms of endless
day. Let us, then, at least manfully acknowledge our indebtedness to
them; let us view them as the unconscious martyrs of humanity, dying
for a cause so divinely high as to accept no conscious or voluntary
adhesion, and yet so divinely ·sure and sweet and human as ultimately
to
vindicate even their dishonored memory, and rehabilitate them in the
love and tenderness of eternal ages. In short, let us agree with Sweden–
borg,
that odious and fearful as these men have seemed in merely
celestial light, they have yet borne the unrecognized livery of the Divine–
NATURAL humanity, and will not fail in the end to swell the triumphs
of his majestic patience. And this, simply because by an undying divine
instinct, under every depth of degradation celestially viewed, they have
always been true to themselves,-feeling themselves to be men and not
deVils,-and over their scarred and riven legions have ever indestructibly
waved the banner of a conscious freedom and rationality.
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
Summer SeSSion
Writing eo!-Irses
July 610 August 13
FICTION: Martha Foley, Grace Paley.
POETRY: Leoni'e Adams. NON·FICTION:
William Goyen, Melvin Mencher, .Harvey
SwIcIos.
WRITERS CONFERENCE: July
19
til
August
5.
Monday through Thursdays,
5:10
to
6:10
p.m.! Lectures and discus·
lions
on problems of writing by proml.
!WIt
guest writers, editors and publishers.
/Open
without fee to registered student$
IJII
the Summer Session, or for
$25
regis·
tntion fee to others• .May be taken for
3
points' credit with Writers Conference
Seminar, which offers discussion and
alticism conducted by Harvey Swados.
GUESTWRITERS: Jacques .Barzun, Barney
Rossett,
Robert Gottlieb, Martha Foley,
Plul
Krassner, William Goyen, Lewis John
Carlino, Alan Dugan, Leonie Adams, Grace
PIIey,
Anatole Btoyard, Marynia F. Farn·
ham, Seymour Krim, Harvey Swados,
Robert
Phelps.
,.. Bulletin
or further
Information, write
• visit:
Director of the Summer Session,
Columbia University, New York, N,Y.
10027.
UNiversity
5-4000.
Ext.
2568.
Henry James, Sr.
NEW
YO,RK
CITY
W,RITERS
CONFERENCE
TENTH SESSION
JULY 3 thru JULY 16
3 CREDITS
Workshops in
Poetry, Fiction,
Drama (with emphasis on Musical
Theater),
&
Manusaipt Criticism
Herbert Kubly
Rick Besoyan FACULTY
Peter Viereck
J. J.
Boies DiRECTOR
NEW YORK CITY
WRITERS CONFERENCE
WAGNER COLLEGE
Staten Island, New York 1030 I
