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...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...
...petitions to keep Professor Kilpatrick on. A similar petition came from Executive Secretary Frederick Redefer of the Progressive Education Association, convening in St. Louis. When Kilpatrickites threatened to bring the matter to the floor of the convention, Dean Russell relented, announced that Teachers College would arrange a lectureship for Professor Kilpatrick next year...
...lectures were established, in 1925 in memory of Alexander James Inglis, former professor of Education, by his friends and colleagues. Through the lectureship, the Graduate School of Education "seeks to stimulate thinking and experiment in the field to which Professor Inglis devoted his life." The lectures are open to the public and are published annually by the School...
...terms of the Pillsbury will, the income from the $25,000 must be "applied by a lectureship or in such other manner as the college authorities may from time to time deem most effective, toward creating or developing sound public opinion and action upon this subject." Because of this broad terminology, the Princeton students who will be forced to hear the lectures on feminism are still uncertain as to whether they will be urged to campaign for or against the woman in the home...
...Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education was established by friends and colleagues of the late Alexander Inglis, professor of Education until his death in 1924. Through the lectureship the Graduate School of Education seeks to stimulate thinking and experiment in the field to which Professor Inglis devoted his life...