Word: godkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lawrence Godkin, 69, son of the late famed Edwin Lawrence Godkin (editor of the New York Evening Post, founder of The Nation); in Manhattan...
...Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, gives the first of two lectures on "Some New Forms of Public Opinion", under the Godkin endowment, this afternoon: The lectures will be at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. Another visiting lecturer will be heard this evening, when Professor Naumann of the University of Frankfort speaks on "Geshichte des Puppenspiels in Deutschland" in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...
...committee of selection which chose McGovern as Scholar-at-large was presided over by Dr. A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, who is at present giving the Cooper Foundation Lectures at Swarthmore College and who will deliver the Godkin Lectures at Harvard on February 5 and 7. The other members of the committee, all former Rhodes Scholars, were H. A. Moe of New York, Scholar-at-large from Minnesota in 1919. Professor R. M. Scoon, of Princeton, 1907 Rhodes Scholar from New York, George Hurley '11, of Providence. 1907 Rhodes Scholar from Rhode Island, and A. C. Valentine...
After expressing his deep sensitiveness to the honor and privilege of delivering the Godkin lecture, President Hibben began the actual body of the first division of his lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...