Lecture
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 [...]
Rudolf Pechel (1956-1957)
Jan 30, 1957
“Freedom in Struggle” Rudolf Pechel was a German liberal, journalist, publisher of Deutsche Rundschau, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1950, he was the President of the German Academy in Language and Poetry. Pechel was well-known for both his writings on [...]
S.E. Morison (1955-1956)
Jan 30, 1956
“Freedom in Contemporary Society” Samuel Eliot Morison was professor of history at Harvard University. During World War I he served as a private in the US Army. He also served as the American Delegate on the Baltic Commission of the Paris Peace Conference until June 17, [...]
Frank H. Underhill (1954-1955)
Jan 30, 1955
“Canadian Liberal Democracy in 1955” Frank H. Underhill was a writer and radio commentator, as well as a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He was a noted Canadian social democrat and public intellectual. Underhill was the first individual to be the Dunning [...]
George V. Ferguson (1954-1955)
Nov 15, 1954
“Freedom of the Press” George V. Ferguson was the editor of the Montreal Star and a radio commentator on international affairs. During the First World War, he served in France. He was a Rhodes scholar from the University of Alberta, and his newspaper experience included the [...]
C. Day Lewis (1953-1954)
Jan 30, 1954
“Notable Images of Virtue” Cecil Day Lewis was professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, a position he held from 1951 to 1956. He authored several studies of poetry as well as two books of poems including Country Comets (1928) and Overtures to Death (1938). He also [...]