Lecture
T.V. Smith (1952-1953)
Jan 30, 1953
“Man’s Threefold Will to Freedom” Thomas Vernor Smith was the Maxwell professor of citizenship and philosophy at the University of Syracuse. He also served a term in the Illinois state senate and was a Congressman-at-large for the state for one session (1939-1941). He was [...]
Herbert Butterfield (1951-1952)
Jan 31, 1952
“Liberty in the Modern World” Herbert Butterfield was elected Chair in Modern History at Cambridge University in 1944 after 20 years as a fellow at Peterhouse College.. He taught modern history, especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and authored a number of [...]
Sir Richard Livingstone (1950-1951)
Jan 30, 1951
“Education and the Spirit of the Age” Sir Richard Livingstone Livingstone was a classics professor at Corpus Christie College, Oxford University. From 1924-1933, Livingstone served as the Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, overseeing the growth of the [...]
John MacMurray (1948-1949)
Jan 30, 1949
“The Conditions of Freedom” John MacMurray was born at Maxwell, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in 1891. During the First World War, he enlisted as a private and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he returned to Oxford to study history and philosophy. [...]
T.E. Jessop (1947-1948)
Jan 19, 1947
“The Freedom of the Individual in Society” Thomas Edmund Jessop was born in 1896 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After teaching at the University of Glasgow, he held the Ferens Chair in philosophy at the University College in Hull, England from 1928. Until 1945, he was [...]