'Advocate' to Sponsor Pennington Seminars On 'Verbal Construct'

Frederic A. Pennington's seminar on "The Critical Process and the Verbal Construct: Problems in the Structure of Language and the Meaning of Meaning" resumed meeting last night under the auspices of the Harvard Advocate.

Dean Watson gave the literary magazine permission to sponsor the controversial seminar on the condition that membership be limited to 20 persons. Pennington has stated that 56 persons want to join the seminar.

Adams House, which sponsored the seminar during the first semester did not ask Pennington to return for the second term. No other House offered space to the former instructor of Gen Ed Ahf.

According to Terence Cogley '65, President of the Advocate, Dean Watson imposed the restriction because he "does not want clubhouses to become public meeting places." Pennington, however, said that the "real" reason for the limitation was to preclude the possibility of a Pennington "cult".

When asked why the Advocate was housing the seminar, Cogley said that "we are sponsoring him to involve ourselves in the intellectual life of the community."