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The Wicht Club was an irreverent, self-assembling society of Harvard University lecturers. From 1903 to 1911 it met monthly for informal dialogue to advance the members' scientific thought and expression. Today it would be seen as a professional development organization, but this group had its mascot (''Das Wicht'') and other terms: *Wichts : members *Wichtinnen : members' wives *''Was Wichtiges'' : annual binding of members' scientific reprints ==Meetings== The club met at a restaurant or hotel in Boston, going outside the stifling atmosphere of academic or domestic spaces. Records were not kept of the ordinary monthly meetings where a presentation may be interrupted or supplemented by audience comments. According to Frederick Parker Gay, "guests were invited, among them William James several times."〔Frederick P. Gay (1938) ''The Open Mind, Elmer Ernest Southard 1876 – 1920'', Normandie House, Chicago, pages 75–7.〕 Once a year the wives were invited to join the Wicht Club when the new volume of ''Was Wichtiges'' was presented. "The nine volumes … are a treasure trove of the work produced by young Harvard scientists and philosophers at the beginning of the twentieth century."〔Saul Benison, A. Clifford Barger, & Elin L. Wolfe (1987) ''Walter B. Cannon, The Life and Times of a Young Scientist'' (0 674 94580 8 ) page 13.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wicht Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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