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Harold E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor and prominent Republican leader has been named Godkin Lecturer this year and will deliver three lectures on "Human Rights", May 7, 8, and 9, it was announced this morning by Dean John H. Williams of the School of Public Administration, who administers the Lectureship...
Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
...economy, Harvard University fired a young poet and assistant professor of English named Theodore Spencer. Cambridge University promptly offered him a lectureship-but war broke before he could take it. Harvard, properly impressed, Lend-Leased him as a "visiting professor" from Cambridge. Last week, Harvard, which has been increasingly impressed by Ted Spencer since then, appointed him, at 44, to the prestigious, 140year-old Boylston Professorship of "Rhetoric & Oratory (first chairholder: John Quincy Adams; last: Poet Robert S. Hillyer...
...Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education was founded in honor of Alexander Inglis, professor of Education from 1914 to 1924. In addition to the English Lecture, conference and several other speakers will be included in the meeting which started yesterday and will continue through tomorrow. The meeting's theme is "Society and the Atent...
...Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...