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...Jose Ortega y Gasset, one of the foremost European political philosophers, Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Madrid, has been chosen Godkin Lecturer for this year, and will deliver a series of lectures during the first part of May, it was announced yesterday. Titles and dates of the lectures will be given out later...
...Godkin lectureship was endowed by friends of Edwin Godkin, founder and for many years editor of "The Nation" magazine, "as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption." The lectures must be on "The essentials of free government and part of that subject." The endowment enables delivery and publication of these lectures each spring...
Many prominent guests were present at a luncheon given by the staff of Loverett House yesterday for Dr. Heinrich Bruening, former chancellor of the German Republic, who has been giving the Godkin Lectures during the past week...
Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
...Bruening closed this year's Godkin lectures with what many people believed to be a warning for America, telling them to "beware of that nervous feeling that is growing in the world...