Thank you, Headmaster. I'm quite pleased that we're able to expand what we offer to our students in so many useful ways. I do think the lectures we've arranged so far will be quite interesting, and wide-ranging indeed.
In keeping with the idea of supporting broader education, I'd like to announce to students that I plan to host informal gatherings on Saturdays after supper in my office as I did a few years ago. These are entirely optional (for one thing, my office only holds so many), and you are welcome to come to as few or as many as you wish, or stay for a short while or the entire time, as your schedule demands. Other staff are also quite welcome to attend.
I expect that some nights we may start with a particular topic, perhaps related to an upcoming or recent lecture (in which case I'll post it in advance on the charm-linked slips on the notice boards I use to alert you to changes in office hours). Other weeks, we may see where conversation takes us, but I promise you that I intend to avoid my own field unless there's an exceptional reason not to. Besides the usual topics covered at Hogwarts, I hope to discuss music and literature of interest, as my own research mentor did with me during my apprenticeship.
There will of course be refreshments. Quite possibly also loans of books of interest.
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Date: 2014-08-26 05:22 pm (UTC)In keeping with the idea of supporting broader education, I'd like to announce to students that I plan to host informal gatherings on Saturdays after supper in my office as I did a few years ago. These are entirely optional (for one thing, my office only holds so many), and you are welcome to come to as few or as many as you wish, or stay for a short while or the entire time, as your schedule demands. Other staff are also quite welcome to attend.
I expect that some nights we may start with a particular topic, perhaps related to an upcoming or recent lecture (in which case I'll post it in advance on the charm-linked slips on the notice boards I use to alert you to changes in office hours). Other weeks, we may see where conversation takes us, but I promise you that I intend to avoid my own field unless there's an exceptional reason not to. Besides the usual topics covered at Hogwarts, I hope to discuss music and literature of interest, as my own research mentor did with me during my apprenticeship.
There will of course be refreshments. Quite possibly also loans of books of interest.