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Andre Maurois will discuss the fall of France at the Lowell House Common Room; "Industrialization of Latin America" will be the subject of a talk by Professor C. H. Haring at the Pan-American Club; Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago will give the first Godkin Lecture on "What is Democracy" at the Littaner Center; Granville Hicks will speak on "The American Literary Mind and the Present Crisis" in the Union; and Professor K. S. Latourette will discuss Christianity at Appleton Chapel...
Opening his series of Harvard University Godkin Lectures, Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago, noted authority on modern government, will lecture today on the subject "On the Agenda of Democracy...
...Merriam has been a member of the National Resources Planning Board, President of the Social Science Research Council, and President of the American Political Science Association, and has been Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1911. In addition to being Godkin Lecturer, he will conduct courses as Visiting Lecturer on Government during the second half of the academic year...
Besides his university work and his services to the national government, Dr. Merriam has entered politics in Chicago, serving as city chairman for six years, running as candidate for mayor, and serving as chairman of the Commission on City Expenditures...
Among Dr. Merriam's many publications in political science are "The New Democracy and the New Despotism," 1939; "Political Power," 1934; "The American Party System," 1922; "American Political Ideas," 1921; and "History of American Political Theories...