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Claude Bissell (1968-1969)
Jan 30, 1969
“Academic Freedom -The Student Version” Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto. After completing graduate work in English and Philosophy, he returned to University College at the University of Toronto in 1941, leaving temporarily the next year to join [...]
Clark Kerr (1968-1969)
Dec 05, 1968
“Higher Education in the US: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times” Clark Kerr was an economist and former Chancellor of the University of California. He was educated at Swarthmore College, Stanford, and Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in economics from 1939. In 1945, he [...]
William H. McNeill (1967-1968)
Feb 12, 1968
“The Idea and Practice of World History” William H. McNeill was the Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 40 years until his retirement in 1987. He was born in 1917 in Vancouver and educated at the University of Chicago and [...]
Douglas V. LePan (1966-1967)
Feb 16, 1967
“Responsibility and Revolt” Douglas V. LePan was a professor of literature and the principal of University College at the University of Toronto. He was also a poet, novelist, and diplomat. He studied at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, and Oxford University. [...]
Laurens van der Post (1965-1966)
Nov 23, 1965
“The Symbol and the Artist” Laurens van der Post was a South African author, political advisor, explorer, and humanitarian. In 1925, he began working as a reporter with The Natal Advertiser and a year later co-founded a satirical magazine that was critical of imperialism. [...]
E.H. Brookes (1965-1966)
Oct 11, 1965
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Daniel Bell (1964-1965)
Jan 19, 1965
“The History of the Idea of the Future” Dr. Daniel Bell was professor of sociology at Columbia University. He was also the labour editor of Fortune Magazine. After completing graduate school at the City College of New York and Columbia, he worked at the weekly The New [...]
Herbert J. Muller (1963-1964)
Jan 30, 1964
Dr. Herbert J. Muller was an American historian, government official, and Distinguished Service Professor of English and Government at Indiana University, where he joined the faculty in 1956. Prior to this, he taught at Cornell, where he completed his undergraduate and [...]
John Coleman Bennett (1962-1963)
Jan 30, 1963
“Christianity and Politics” Dr. John Coleman Bennett was a theologian, minister in the United Church, and Christian ethicist. Bennett was Reinhold Neibuhr Professor of Social Ethics and the Dean of the Faculty at Union Theological Seminary, New York. His scholarship [...]
Sir Hector Hetherington (1961-1962)
Jan 30, 1962
“Some Aspects of the British Experiment in Democracy” Hector Hetherington was a Scottish philosopher. He studied at the University of Glasgow and Oxford. At the time of his talk, Hetherington was Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. He began his academic career in the [...]
Pierre Emmanuel (1960-1961)
Jan 30, 1961
“A Creative Way to Freedom” Pierre Emmanuel was a French poet, critic, and journalist. Pierre Emmanuel name was a pseudonym and his real name was Noël Mathieu. He was a professor of mathematics until 1943, when he joined the French resistance movement to the Nazi occupation [...]
Robert Oppenheimer (1959-1960)
Jan 30, 1960
“Knowledge as Science; Knowledge as Action; Knowledge as Culture” Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist and the father of the atomic bomb. He was Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. As a student, he studied chemistry at Harvard [...]