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Sir Hector Hetherington (1961-1962)
Jan 30, 1962
鈥淪ome Aspects of the British Experiment in Democracy鈥 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 [...]
Robert Oppenheimer (1959-1960)
Jan 30, 1960
鈥淜nowledge as Science; Knowledge as Action; Knowledge as Culture鈥 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
鈥淔reedom in Struggle鈥 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
鈥淔reedom in Contemporary Society鈥 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
鈥淐anadian Liberal Democracy in 1955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 first individual to be the Dunning [...]
George V. Ferguson (1954-1955)
Nov 15, 1954
鈥淔reedom of the Press鈥 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
鈥淣otable Images of Virtue鈥 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 [...]
T.V. Smith (1952-1953)
Jan 30, 1953
鈥淢an鈥檚 Threefold Will to Freedom鈥 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
鈥淟iberty in the Modern World鈥 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 [...]
John MacMurray (1948-1949)
Jan 30, 1949
鈥淭he Conditions of Freedom鈥 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
鈥淭he Freedom of the Individual in Society鈥 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 [...]