He founded , for example , the junto , a discussion group that met weekly to debate the issues of the day .
比如,他成立了一个叫做“小团体”的讨论小组,每周聚会一次,讨论当下的各种问题。
The junto was active for 30 years and developed into the american philosophical society .
“小团体”活跃了30年,发展壮大成为今天的美国哲学协会。
I should have mentioned before , that , in the autumn of the preceding year , I had formed most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club for mutual improvement , which we called the junto ; we net on friday evenings .
I drew up the proposals , got them put into form by our great scrivener , brockden , and , by the help of my friends in the junto , procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with , and ten shillings a year for fifty years , the term our company was to continue .