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Rivlin presented her speechentitled. Making Governments Word," as part of the Godkin Lecture Series...
...series was endowed at Harvard in 1903 by friends of British journalist Edwin L. Godkin for the delivery and publication of lectures on "the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen...
...items were likely to include exhaustive reports of lectures, and play-by-play accounts of debates with teams representing Yale and Princeton. In fact only three big stories came up during his spring as managing editor--the selection of Dean Briggs as president of Radcliffe, the establishment of the Godkin lectures, and the announcement that a football stadium would be built on Soldiers Field. No one seemed distressed by the lack of hard news, though, for Roosevelt ascended from managing editor to president the following fall (he had completed the requirements for graduation in three years, but came back...
...United States was "ill-founded," George F. Will asserted in his Godkin Lectures two weeks ago. In his discussion of the nature of government, the nationally syndicated columnist challenged the basic assumptions on which this nation is based. For the past two centuries, political argument has assumed freedom of individual choice as a given, and has proceeded from there. The debate, Will said, between the "Massachusetts liberalism" of Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Ronald Reagan's "Manchester liberalism," though politically significant, is philosophically meaningless. Both agree on the basics; they disagree merely on how to achieve the ends...
Will's speech was the conclusion of his three-part Godkin Lecture series, an annual presentation at the University which honors Edwin L. Godkin, founder of The Nation magazine...