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Garrett Hardin (1972-1973)
Oct 23, 1972
鈥淧opulation: The Solution is in Our Minds鈥 Garrett Hardin was Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a prominent environmentalist. He specialized in human population dynamics, evolution and the history of science. Hardin authored the [...]
Harry Street (1969-1970)
Mar 25, 1970
鈥淧rivacy and the Law鈥 Harry Street was a professor of English Law at the University of Manchester and a jurist. He was previously a teacher at the Harvard Law School. He authored 鈥淔reedom, the Individual and the Law.鈥 Much of his work focused on civil liberties and tort [...]
Michael Swann (1969-1970)
Nov 05, 1969
鈥淭he Scientist鈥檚 Uneasy Conscience鈥 Michael Swann was principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, where he was also a professor of natural history. Swann was a biologist and zoologist whose research addressed cell division and fertilization. At the time [...]
Claude Bissell (1968-1969)
Jan 30, 1969
鈥淎cademic Freedom -The Student Version鈥 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 [...]
John Eccles (1968-1969)
Oct 16, 1968
鈥淭he Necessity of Freedom for the Flowering of Science鈥 Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, and professor at a number of universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including the University of Buffalo. Eccles was the 1963 [...]
J. A. Leith (1968-1969)
Oct 02, 1968
鈥淭he French Revolution of 1968鈥 J. A. Leith was professor and chairman of the Queen鈥檚 History Department. He was the author of Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 and editor of Symbols in Life and Art. In his [...]
Leon Dion (1967-1968)
Feb 14, 1968
鈥淧olitical Participation in Liberal Democracies鈥 Leon Dion was Professor of Political Science at Laval University from 1948-1989. He was best known for studying educational reform and French-English relations. His book Le bill 60 et la soci茅t茅 qu茅b茅coise (1967) studied the [...]
Douglas V. LePan (1966-1967)
Feb 16, 1967
鈥淩esponsibility and Revolt鈥 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. [...]
Frank H. Underhill (1966-1967)
Jan 16, 1967
鈥淐anadian Intellectuals and Canadian National Politics, 1867-1967鈥 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 [...]
E.H. Brookes (1965-1966)
Oct 11, 1965
鈥淧roblems of African Universities South of the Sahara鈥 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 [...]
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
鈥淐hristianity and Politics鈥 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 [...]