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Date: March 8, 1946
Topic: The War Crimes Trial
Speakers: Col. Murray Bernays - Advisor to Justice Jackson, War
Crimes Trial
Leo Gross - Professor, Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy
Date: March 15, 1946
Topic: Issues Facing Labor and Management in
the Coming Years
Speakers: Louis Waldman - Labor Lawyer
Isadore Katz - General Counsel, The Textile Workers of America
Dr. Emerson Schmidt - Dir. of Economic Research, U.S. Chamber
of Commerce
Moderator: John Dunlop - Associate Professor,
Harvard Law School
Date: March 22, 1946
Title: "60 Million Jobs"
Speakers: Norman Thomas - Socialist Candidate for President,
1928, '32, '36, '40, '44
Alvin H. Hansen - Professor of Political Economy, Harvard
Dan Smith - Professor, Harvard
Bourke Hickenlooper - U.S. Senator (R), Iowa
[TEXT - Hickenlooper]
Date: Spring Semester, 1946
Title: "The Philosophy of Law"
Speakers: Roscoe Pound - Professor, Harvard Law School
Huntington Cairns - National Gallery of Art
Karl Llewellyn - Professor of Law, Columbia University
Date: Spring Semester, 1946
Topic: The Need for Reorganization of Congress
Speakers: A.S. "Mike" Monroney - U.S. Congressman (D),
Oklahoma
Thomas Finletter - Author; Member, U.S. Delegation to the
Organization of The U.N.
Date: Spring Semester, 1946
Topic: The Merits of the British Loan
Speakers: Edwin Johnson - U.S. Senator (D), Colorado
Professor Edwin Mason - Former Deputy to
William Clayton
Date: May 10, 1946
Topic: Cartels
Speakers: William H. Davis - Former Chairman, WLB
Judge Ewin Davis - Chairman, FTC
Gilbert Montague - Antitrust Lawyer
Hugh Cox - Department of Justice
Date: November 1, 1946
Title: "What Are the Domestic Sources of
Russian Foreign Policy?"
Speakers: Harrison Salisbury - UPI Correspondent; Author, Russia
on the Way
Arthur Upham Pope - Dir., Iranian Institute; Author, Biography
of Maxim Litvinoff
David Dallin - Author, The Real Soviet Union, Soviet
Foreign Policy, The Big Three
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: November 15, 1946
Title: "America's Policy Toward Russia"
Speakers: John Fischer - Editor, Harper's Magazine
Michael Karpovitch - Professor of History - Harvard
John Somerville - Author, The Soviet Philosophy
Moderator: Richard Lauterbach - Author, These
Are The Russians
Date: November 19, 1946
Title: "An Analysis of the Soviet Legal
System"
Speakers: John Hazard - Professor of Law, Russian Institute,
Columbia University
Date: December 6, 1946
Title: "What is the Solution in China"
Speakers: Professor John K. Fairbank - Joint Chairman, Regional
Committee on China
Dr. Chen Chih-Mei - Counselor of the Chinese Embassy to the
U.S.
Moderator: Warren A. Seavey - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: December 13, 1946 (4:00
p.m.)
Title: "Critical Issues in Aviation
Policy"
Speaker: James N. Landis - Former Dean, Harvard Law School.;
Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
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Date: December 13, 1946 (7:45
p.m.)
Title: "Bureaucracy and the Legal Order"
Speakers: James N. Landis - Former Dean, Harvard Law School;
Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
Robert M. Benjamin - Administrative Attorney
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Date: January 10, 1947
Title: "Values for the Modern Man"
Speakers: F. S. C. Northrup - Professor of Philosophy, Yale
Robert Lynd - Professor of Sociology, Columbia
Panelists: Henry D. Aiken - Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
Carleton S. Coon - Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
Orval H. Mowrer - Professor of Education, Harvard
Talcott Parsons - Professor of Sociology, Harvard
Moderator: Williard L. Sperry - Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Date: February 28, 1947
Topic: The Causes of Industrial Strikes
Speakers: Clinton S. Golden - Counselor for the United
Steelworkers
Leo Wollman - Professor of Labor Relations, Columbia
Date: March 7, 1947
Title: "Labor and the Law"
Speaker: Willard Wirtz - Chairman, National Wage Stabilization
Board
Date: March 14, 1947
Title: "How Can We Mitigate Industrial
Strikes"
Speakers: Donald R. Richberg - Attorney, Co-author of National
Railway Act
Jesse Freidin - Former General Counsel, Wage Labor Board
Moderator: Lon L. Fuller -
Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 28, 1947
Title: "A Restatement of the Liberal
Creed"
Speaker: George Soule - Editor, The New Republic
Thomas H. Eliot - Counsel, Civil Liberties Union
Moderator: Professor Thomas H. Powell
Date: April 11, 1947
Title: "How Strong is the
United Nations?"
Speakers: Senator Claude D. Pepper
- D., Florida
Abraham H. Feller - General
Counsel, The United Nations
Henry M. Wriston - President,
Brown University
Moderator: Milton Katz -
Professor, Harvard Law School
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ARTICLE]
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Date: April 25, 1947
Title: "An Analysis of World Government"
Speakers: Hon. Owen J, Roberts - Former Justice, U.S. Supreme
Court
Clark M. Eichelberger - Chairman,
Association of the United Nations
Moderator: Erwin Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: October 9, 1947
Title: "Rebuild Germany?"
Speakers: Thomas C. Blaisdell - Dir., Office of
Int'l Trade, Dept. of Commerce
Bernard Bernstein - Fmr. Director, U.S. Group Control
Commission for Germany
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: October 31, 1947
Title: "Is the American Press Free and Responsible"
Speakers: Thomas Stokes - Newspaper Columnist, Pulitzer Prize
Winner
Lawrence E. Spivak - Editor, The American Mercury
Zechariah Chafee, Jr. - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Arthur M. Schlesinger - Professor of History, Harvard
Date: November 14, 1947
Topic: Are Communism and Christianity Compatible?
Speakers: Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr - Professor, Union Theological
Seminary
Father John O'Brien - Boston College
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: November 25, 1947
Title: "Are American Civil Rights Safe?"
Speaker: Roger Baldwin - Director, The American Civil
Liberties Union
Panel: Elijah Adlow - Judge, Boston Municipal Court
John Saltonstall, Jr. - Fmr. Counsel, Massachusetts Civil
Liberties Union
E. Merrick Dodd - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: February 20, 1948
Title: "Must We Stop Russia?"
Speakers: Joseph Alsop - Commentator, N.Y. Herald Tribune
I. F. Stone - Foreign Editor, PM
Moderator: Milton Katz - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 23, 1948
Title: "Uniform Divorce Law: An
Approach Towards Improving the Law of Domestic
Relations"
Speakers: Reginald Heber Smith, Esq. - Chairman, President's
Conference on
American Family Life
Date: April 23, 1948
Title: "Which Party in 1948?"
Speakers: Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney - D., Wyoming
Prof. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - National Board, A.D.A.
Sen. Owen Brewster - R., Maine
Sen. James P. Kem - R., Missouri
Rep. Leo Isacson - N.Y. (third party)
Moderator: Paul A. Freund - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: October 9, 1948
Title: "How Shall We Deal with American Communists?"
Speakers: O. John Rogge - U.S. Prosecutor, Nazi Sedition
Trials
William Yandell Elliott - Professor of
Government, Harvard
Morris Ernst - Member, Pres. Truman's
Civil Rights Committee
Moderator: Paul Freund - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: October 15, 1948
Title: "Can We Avoid Depression?"
Speakers: Paul Porter - Former OPA Administrator
Malcolm B. McNair - Professor, Harvard Business School
Moderator: Edward Mason - Dean, Harvard School of Public
Administration
Date: October 29, 1948
Title: "The Faculty Votes"
Speakers: Zechariah Chafee, Jr. - Professor, Harvard Law
School
W. Barton Leach - Professor, Harvard Law School
Warren A. Seavey - Professor, Harvard Law School
Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: John Ciardi - Assistant Professor of English,
Harvard
Date: November 5, 1948
Title: "American Sex Standards"
Speakers: Dr. Margaret Mead
Dr. Gregory Zilboorg
Rev. Prof. Joseph Fletcher
Moderator: Prof. Kirtley Mather
Date: December 3, 1948
Title: "What is Happening to Our Family System?"
Speakers: Carle Zimmerman - Author, Family and Civilization
Joseph K. Folsom - Author, The Family and Democratic
Society
Carl Binger - Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst,
Author, The Doctor's Job
Moderator: Clyde K. Kluckhohn - Professor of Social
Relations, Harvard
Date: November 11, 1948
Title: "School For Young Lawyers: Legal Ethics"
Speakers: Edmund M. Morgan - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: November 12, 1948
Title: "School For Young Lawyers: Trial Techniques"
Speakers: Judge Samuel Liebowitz - Kings County Court, New
York
Date: December 7, 1948
Title: "The Spirit of Soviet Law"
Lecture 1: "Soviet Law and Russian History"
Speaker: Harold J. Berman - Visiting Professor of Law -
Harvard
Date: December 9, 1948
Title: "The Spirit of Soviet Law"
Lecture 2: "Soviet Law and Marxist Theory"
Speaker: Harold J. Berman - Visiting Professor of Law -
Harvard
Date: December 13, 1948
Title: "The Spirit of Soviet Law"
Lecture 3: "The Spirit of Soviet Law"
Speaker: Harold J. Berman - Visiting Professor of Law -
Harvard
Date: February 11, 1949
Title: "Congressional Investigations: How Can They
Be Improved?"
Speakers: Sen. Homer Ferguson - R, Mich., Senate Investigating
Committee
Rep. F. Edward Hebert - D., La.; Formerly of House
Un-American Activities Cmte.
Richard Strout - Washington Staff Correspondent,
Christian Science Monitor
Alan Klotz - Bar Association Report on Investigating
Committees
Moderator: Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: February 18, 1949
Title: "A New Foreign Policy for Asia?"
Speakers: Roscoe Pound - Former Dean, Harvard Law School;
Legal Advisor to China
George W. Malone - U.S. Senator, Nevada; Indonesia
Committee
Edwin O. Reischauer - Professor of History, Harvard;
State Dept. Advisor in Japan
Frank K. Fairbank - Professor of History, Harvard; Far
East Regional Studies
Moderator: Arthur N. Holcomb - Professor of Government,
Harvard
Date: February 28, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man: Arts and Letters"
Speakers: Howard Mumford Jones - Professor of English -
Harvard
F. O. Matthiessen - Professor of English, Harvard
Dean A. Tillman Merrit - Harvard Music Department
Dorothy Adlow - Art Critic, Christian Science Monitor
Moderator: J. H. Finley - Professor of Classics, Harvard
Date: March 1, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man: Social Sciences"
Speakers: Henry Aiken - Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
George de Santillana - Professor of English and History,
M.I.T.
Pitirim Sorokin - Professor of Social Relations, Harvard
Moderator: Wassily Leontief - Economist, Littauer Center
Date: March 2, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man: Physical Sciences"
Speakers: Phillip Frank - Professor of Physics, Harvard
Phillipe Le Corbeillir - Professor of Mathematics,
Harvard
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Astronomer
Moderator: Kirtley F. Mather - Professor of Geology, Harvard
Date: March 3, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man: Philosophy and
Religion"
Speakers: Rev. Allan Chalmers, Boston University Theological
School
Father William A. Donaghy, S.J. - Campion Hall, North
Andover
Donald C. Williams - Chairman, Harvard Philosophy
Department
Moderator: Rev. Joseph Fletcher - Episcopal Theological School
Date: March 4, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man"
Speakers: Percy W. Bridgman - Professor of Physics, Harvard
William Ernest Hocking - Professor Emeritus of
Philosophy, Harvard
Walter G. Muelder - Dean, Boston University Theological
School
Moderator: Lon L. Fuller - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 4, 1949
Title: "Values for Modern Man"
Speakers: William Ernest Hocking - Author, Science, Value,
and Religion
Percy W. Bridgman - Professor of Physics, Harvard; Nobel
Prize Winner, 1948
Walter G. Muelder - Dean, Boston College School of
Theology
Moderator: Lon L. Fuller - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 18, 1949
Title: "How Far Should Our Government Go in Regulating Our
Economy?"
Speakers: Senator Owen Brewster - R., Maine
Norman Thomas - Former Candidate for President,
Socialist Party
Rep. John F. Kennedy - D., Massachusetts
Moderator: Seymour Harris - Professor of Economics, Harvard
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Date:March 25, 1949
Title: "Does Sponsorship Mean Censorship?"
Speakers: Al Capp - Creator, "Li'l Abner"
Bill Maudlin - Author, "Up Front;" Staff
Cartoonist, New York Star
William E. Mullins - Columnist, Boston Herald
Irving T. McDonald - News Commentator, Radio Station
WEEI
Moderator: Robert Braucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: April 4, 1949
Title: "Nationalization in Great Britain:
Constitutional and Legal Aspects""
Speaker: William A. Robson - Prof., Administrative Law, London
Sch. of Economics
Date: April 14, 1949
Title: "Federal Aid to Education"
Speakers: James B. Conant - President, Harvard University
Henry M. Wriston - President, Brown University
Moderator: Erwin N. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: April 26, 1949
Title: "Labor Unions in Politics"
Speaker: Harold J. Laski -Professor of Economics - London Sch.
of Economics
Panel: William Y. Elliot - Professor of Government, Harvard
Wassily W. Leontief - Professor of
Economics, Harvard
Moderator: Seymour E. Harris - Professor of Economics, Harvard
Date: October 13, 1949
Title: "Legal Education at Harvard"
Speaker: Erwin N. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: October 19, 1949
Title: "Legal Education at Yale"
Speaker: Wesley A. Sturges - Dean, Yale Law School
Date: December 3, 1949
Title: "Are Capitalism and Christianity Compatible?"
Speakers: Clare Boothe Luce - Author; Playright; Fmr.
Congresswoman, Connecticut
Reinhold Niebuhr - Professor of Christian Ethics, Union
Theological Seminary, NYC
Moderator: Samuel Beer - Professor of Government, Harvard
Date: December 16, 1949
Title: "What Is Wrong With American Radio?"
Speakers: H. V. Katlenborn - Radio Commentator
Quincy Howe - Radio Commentator, CBS
Norman Corwin - Radio Writer, Producer, Director
James L. Fly - Former Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission
Moderator: Erwin Canham - Editor, The Christian Science
Monitor