Hate and intolerance will be studied by social scientists and educators attending the Williamstown Institute of Human Relations here on August 24 to 29, according to an announcement issued here today by the Institute.
At the first national educational forum on post-war problems on the campus of Williams College under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, specialists will analyse the effect of “hate” in the same light that scientists and students have studied the menace of “tuberculosis” and “yellow fever” as an obstacle to the achievement of a healthy society.
An entire session on “Intolerance — Its Toll Upon the Intolerant” will be given to this problem Thursday morning, August 28. Dr. David M. Levy, eminent New York psychiatrist, will present findings of an investigation into the effects of “hate” on the individual human personality, showing the various stages of frustration, general hostility, guilt and even insanity through which its victims are led. Sister Mary de Lourds, of St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Conn., an expert in the subjects of child guidance and prejudice, will demonstrate how hatreds, which develop patterns of conduct inimical to the democratic way of life, are inculcated in many children at an early age. Another principle speaker will be Alice L. Halligan, chairman of a committee of teachers, supervisors and principals of the Springfield, Mass., schools, which has been producing materials and devising methods for immunizing public school children against hatreds and prejudices.
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