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John Lord O'Brian '96 will speak on "Security in an Age of Anxiety" at 8 p.m. tonight in the first of this year's Godkin lectures at Sanders Theatre. He will speak again tomorrow night to conclude the series, with his topic "Security, Sanity, and Fair Play...
...Godkin Lectures, given under the auspices of the Graduate School of Public Administration, were established...
John Lord O'Brian '96, Lormer president of the Alumni Association and prominent Washington attorney, will deliver the annual Godkin Lectures instead of the late Robert H. Jackson, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, who was previously scheduled to give them. Jackson died unexpectedly last year...
...There will be no connection between the formerly scheduled Jackson lectures and the O'Brian speeches now scheduled," stated Herzog. Jackson was planning to speak on "The position of the Supreme Court in the American system of Government." All Godkin Lectures, however, fall into the general category of "The essentials of Free Goverment and the Duties of the Citizen...
...lectures were established in 1903 and are offered each year in the memory of the late Edwin L. Godkin, who founded "The Nation" and edited "The New York Evening Post." Friends of his established a fund for the expressed purpose of inviting people not directly connected with the University to give talks on the specified topic each year. It was further stated in the agreement with the University that no regular lecturers were to be employed to give the talks...