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Guide to Past Programs
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Date: February 8, 1950
Title: "What is Wrong With the American Lawyer?"
Speaker: Luther L. Hill - Publisher, Des Moines Register
and Tribune
Introduction: Erwin N. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: February 10, 1950
Title: "Catholic Church and Politics"
Speakers: Father George H. Dunne, S. J. - Author, Religion
and American Democracy
Paul Blanshard - Author, American Freedom and
Catholic Power
Moderator: H. O. Aiken - Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
[TRANSCRIPT]
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: March 17, 1950
Title: "Women's Education: Kitchen
or Career"
Speakers: Dr. Marynia Farnham - Co-Author, Modern Woman: The
Lost Sex
Lillian Hellman - Broadway Playwright
Harold Taylor - President, Sarah Lawrence College
Moderator: Benjamin Wright - President, Smith
College
Date: March 24, 1950
Title: "The Welfare State"
Speakers: Senator Hubert Humphrey - D., Minnesota
John Foster Dulles - Former Senator, R., New York
Moderator: David F. Cavers - Professor, Harvard
Law School
Date: April 7, 1950
Title: "The Art of Cross-Examination"
Speakers: Judge Samuel Leibowitz - Kings County Court, New York
Moderator: Benjamin Kaplan - Professor, Harvard Law School
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: October 27, 1950
Title: "The Moral Responsibility of a
Scientist"
Speaker: Pitrim A. Sorokin - Professor of Sociology, Harvard
Leo Szilard - Professor of Bio-Chemistry, University of
Chicago
Henry D. Aiken - Assoc. Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
Norbert Wiener - Professor of Mathematics, M.I.T.
Moderator: Harlow Shapley - Professor of
Astronomy, Harvard
Date: November 8, 1950
Title: "Women Offenders in State Institutions"
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Van Waters - Supt., Framingham Reformatory
for Women
Introduction: David Livingston Hall - Vice-Dean, Harvard Law
School
Date: November 17, 1950
Title: "The American Novel"
Speakers: James D. Farrel - Author, Studs Lonigan
Esther Forbes - Author, The Running of the Tide
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. - Author, The Way West
Budd Schulberg - Author, The Disenchanted
Moderator: Howard Mumford Jones
Date: December 8, 1950
Title: "Crime in the U.S."
Speakers: Irving H. Saypol - U.S. Attorney, Southern District,
New York
Louis B. Nichols - Assistant Director, F.B.I.
Ray Sprigle - Pulitzer Prize Winner for Reporting
Ralph de Toledano - Associate Editor, Newsweek
Moderator: Prof. Sheldon Glueck, Harvard
Date: February 16, 1951
Title: "Can We Preserve Freedom and Achieve
Security?"
Speakers: Professor William Yandell Elliott
McGeorge Bundy
Dean Chester M. Alter
Moderator: Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr.
Date: February 23, 1951
Title: "The Struggle in Europe"
Speakers: Dr. Ales Bebler
William L. Shriner
Chester E. Merrow
William H. Chamberlin
Moderator: Donald C. McKay
Date: March 2, 1951
Title: "Realignment of Parties"
Speakers: Senator William Langer - R., North Dakota
Rep. Jacob K. Javits - R., New York
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell - D., New York
Moderator: Paul A. Freund - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 17, 1951
Title: "Public Aid to Parochial Education"
Speakers: Bishop G. Brumley Oxnam - Methodist Church
James M. O'Neill - Professor, Brooklyn College
George H. Williams - Professor, Harvard Divinity School
Vincent A. McCrossen - Professor, Boston College
Moderator: Professor Robert Ulich
[TRANSCRIPT]
Date: March 21, 1951
Title: "Is There Justice in the Army?"
Speakers: Thurgood Marshall - Chief Counsel, NAACP
Introduction: Professor W. Covington Hardee
Date: October 26, 1951
Topic: Japan's new role as a member of the free nations of the
world
Speakers: Owen Brewster - U.S. Senator, R., Maine
John K. Fairbank - Professor, Harvard
Robert P. Martin - Former CBS Tokyo Correspondent
Moderator: Harold J. Berman - Professor, Harvard Law School
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: November 16, 1951
Title: "How Free Is The Press?"
Speakers: Morris Ernst - New York Civil Rights Attorney
Erwin D. Canham - Editor, Christian Science Monitor
John H. Thomson - Vice President, New England Newspaper
Guild
August Heckscher - Editorialist, New York Herald
Tribune
Moderator: Prof. Mark DeWolfe Howe
Date: November 27, 1951
Title: "Interpretation of Medical Evidence"
Speaker: Dr. Richard Ford - Acting Head, Dept. of Legal
Medicine, Harvard
Date: November 30, 1951
Title: "Is the Musical Replacing Serious Drama?"
Speakers: Richard Rogers - Composer (w/ Hammerstein),
"Oklahoma"
Lillian Hellman - Broadway Playwright
Marc Connely - Author, Playwright
John Chapman - Drama Editor - The New York News
Moderator: Elliot Norton - Drama Critic - The Boston Post
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: December 7, 1951
Title: "Can We Afford Academic Freedom?"
Speakers: Carey McWilliams - Associate Editor, The Nation
Allen A. Zoll - Exec. V.P., National Council for
American Education
McGeorge Bundy - Associate Professor of Government,
Harvard
Moderator: Robert Braucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
[TRANSCRIPT]
Date: December 20, 1951
Title: "India's Foreign Policy"
Speakers: R. U. Singh, S.J.D. '31 - Dean, University of
Lucknow Law School, India
Date: February 8, 1952
Title: "Corruption in the Cities"
Speakers: Rudolph Halley - President, New York City Council
Jerome Rappaport - Founder, New Boston Committee
Walter M. Phillips - Philadelphia City Representative
Moderator: Carl Friedrich - Professor of Government, Harvard
Date: February 13, 1952
Title: "The Schuman Plan"
Speaker: Professor Robert R. Bowie
Date: February 29, 1952
Title: "Can We Afford Segregation Now?"
Speakers: Thurgood Marshall - Special Counsel, NAACP
Marion A. Wright - President, Southern Regional Council
Alfred G. Ivey - Nieman Fellow, Assoc. Editor, Winston
Salem Journal
Moderator: W. Covington Hardee
[PHOTO]
[NEWS ARTICLE]
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Date: March 8, 1952
Title: "UMT in America's Future"
Speakers: Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey - Director, Selective
Service
Edwin Randall - Field Director, American Friends Service
Committee
Moderator: Isadore Muchnick - Boston School Board
Date: March 21, 1952
Title: "Mr. Republican Of '52"
Speakers: Hamilton Fish, Jr. - Former Congressman, New York
J. Kenneth Bradley - Republican National Committeeman,
Connecticut
John "Tex" McCrary - NBC Radio and Television
Commentator
Robert Cutler - President, Old Colony Trust Company
Moderator: Warren A. Seavey - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 28, 1952
Title: "Modern Trends in Music"
Speakers: Arthur Fielder - Conductor, The Boston
"Pops" Orchestra
Walter Piston - Professor of Music, Harvard
Jules Wolffers - Music Critic, Christian Science Monitor
Karl Geiringer - Professor of Music, Boston University
Moderator: Martin Bookspan - Director of Classical Music, WCOP
Date: October 7, 1952
Title: "Men and Morals"
Speakers: Norman Thomas - Socialist Candidate for President
Pitrim Sorokin - Professor of Social Relations, Harvard
Henry Aiken - Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
Date: October 10, 1952
Title: "Can Israel Survive?"
Speakers: Dorothy Thompson, Newspaper Correspondent
Faris Malouf, Boston Lawyer
Hon. Aubrey S. Eban, Israeli Ambassador
Moderator: Prof. Richard Frye, Harvard
Date: October 17, 1952
Title: "How The Faculty Votes"
Speakers: Erwin I. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
David F. Cavers - Associate Dean, Harvard Law School
W. Barton Leach - Professor, Harvard Law School
Robert Braucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Donald H. Wollett - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Arthur E. Sutherland - Professor, Harvard Law
School
Date: October 23, 1952
Title: "What's Funny Today?"
Speakers: Al Capp - Creator, "Li'l Abner"
Ira Wallach - Author, Hopalong Freud
Henry Morgan - Radio Comic
Max Schulman - Author, Zebra Derby, The Feather
Merchants
Moderator: Felicia Lamport - Author, Mink on Mondays
(Ermine on Sundays)
Date: November 12, 1952
Title: "W(H)IG or (S)TORY: Lawyer Making in U.S.
compared to United Kingdom"
Speakers: Louis Loss - Professor, Harvard Law School
Clive Perry - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: November 21, 1952
Title: "The Naturalistic Novel"
Speakers: Ludwig Lewisohn
Erskine Caldwell
Moderator: Mrs. Vachel Lindsay
Date: December 17, 1952
Title: "Death Sentence for Treason: A Review of the
Rosenberg Case"
Speakers: Hon. Stephen Love - Prof. of Law, Northwestern Univ.
Law School
Date: February 6, 1953
Title: "What To Do With Taft-Hartley"
Speakers: Robert N. Denham - Former General Counsel, N.L.R.B.
Archibald Cox - Former Chairman, W.S.B.
David Feller - Assistant General Counsel, C.I.O.
Leslie E. Woods - Raytheon Mfg. Corp.
Moderator: Prof. Donald H. Wollett
Date: February 19, 1953
Title: "The Prevention of Habitual Offenses in
Juveniles"
Speaker: Judge Irving Ben Cooper - Chief Justice, N.Y.C. Court
of Special Sessions
Moderator: Professor Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of
Law, HLS
Date: February 27, 1953
Topic: The Russian Threat
Speakers: O. John Rogge - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
General
William Henry Chamberlain - Editorial Contributor, Wall
Street Journal
Quincy Howe, CBS News Analyst
Owen Brewster - Former U.S. Senator, Maine
Moderator: Isadore Muchnick - Boston School Board
Date: April 3, 1953
Title: "Invitation to 3-D" (featuring an hour
of 3-dimensional movies)
Speakers: Arthur DeBra - Motion Association of America
Dr. John Brooks - Harvard Medical School
Elinor Hughes - Film Editor, Boston Herald
Floyd Ramsdell - President, Stereo Corporation
Date: April 10, 1953
Title: "Limitations of Free Expression?"
Speakers: Victor Lasky - Author & Screen Writer
Oscar Handlin - Pulitzer Prize Winner
John Ciardi - Harvard College
Moderator: Al Capp
Date: May 1, 1953
Title: "Liberalism Reappraised"
Speakers: Henry A Wallace
Paul Dever - Former Governor, Massachusetts
Robert Braucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Prof. Samuel Beer
Date: October 16, 1953
Title: "The American Girl"
Speakers: Magda Gabor
Earl Wilson - Social Anthropologist
Al Capp
Moderator: Felicia Lamport
Date: October 21, 1953
Title: "A Peaceful Revolution: The Shuman
Plan"
Speaker: Monsieur Jean Blondeel, Associate General Counsel of
the High Authority
of the European Coal and Steel Community
Date: October 30, 1953
Title: "Banned in Boston"
Speakers: Dwight S. Strong - N.E. Watch & Ward Society
Msgr. Francis J. Lally - Editor, The Pilot
Elinor Hughes - Drama Critic, Boston Herald
Gerald A. Berlin - American Jewish Congress
Moderator: Louis Jaffe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: November 10, 1953
Title: "Religious Intermarriage"
Speakers: Mrs. Emily Mudd - President, American Assn. of
Marriage Counselors
Rev. Robert C. Dodds - First Church in Cambridge,
Congregational
Rabbi M. L. Zigmond - Director, Hillel Foundation,
Harvard University
Dr. Joseph Spiegel - Chicago Psychiatrist, Visiting
Professor, Harvard
Moderator: Dr. Samuel Stouffer - Harvard University
Date: December 4, 1953
Title: "The Political Machine: Use and Abuse"
Speakers: James Michael Curley - Former Governor of
Massachusetts
Jerome L. Rappaport - New Boston Committee
Joseph F. Dineen - Columnist, Boston Globe
Moderator: Prof. W. Covington Hardee
Date: January 29, 1954
Title: "Is Jazz Serious Music?"
Speakers: Nat Hentoff - Associate Editor, Downbeat
Richard Dyer-Bennett - Folk Singer
George Wein - Storyville
Nicholas Slanimsky - Music Critic
Moderator: Father Norman O'Connor - Boston University
Date: February 19, 1954
Title: "Ethics for the Modern Man: Existentialism
v. Positivism"
Speakers: Professor C. W. Hendel - Head, Dept. of Philosophy,
Yale University
Professor William Barrett - Associate Editor, Partisan
Review
Professor Philipp Frank, Harvard University
Moderator: C. W. Hendel - Chairman, Department of Philosophy,
Yale University
Date: February 26, 1954
Title: "Power of the Press"
Speakers: Victor Lasky - Editor, American Legion Reader
Hal Clancy - News Editor, Traveler
William E. Mullins, Boston Herald
Moderator: John McNaughton - Asst. Prof. of Law, Harvard
Date: March 12, 1954
Title: "Communism and the Churches"
Speakers: Dr. Joseph T. Fletcher - Episcopal Theological
School
Dr. Forrest Knapp - Massachusetts Council of Churches
Dr. Prentiss Pemberton - Andover-Newton Theological
School
Father John A. Sexton - Former Editor, Pilot
Date: March 26, 1954
Title: "Labor in Politics"
Speakers: Gus Tyler - Vice-Chairman, Trade Union Council, The
Liberal Party
Victor Riesel - Author, "Inside Labor"
syndicated column
Robert C. Segal - Boston Counsel, AFL
Al Barkan - Chairman, P.A.C. of the Textile Workers
Union of America, CIO
Moderator: Louis L. Jaffe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: April 2, 1954
Title: "The Future of Asia"
Speakers: Col. Laurence Bunker - Aide to General MacArthur
John Fairbank - Harvard University
Harold Isaacs - Author on Asia
David J. Dillan - Russo-Far
Eastern Expert
Moderator: Stuart Macmillan
Date: October 22, 1954
Title: "Crisis in Education"
Speakers: Nathan Pusey - President, Harvard University
Frederick Weed - Headmaster, Roxbury Latin School
Robert Ulich - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Lee Dunn - Boston Latin School
Moderator: David Cavers - Associate Dean, Harvard Law School
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Date: October 27, 1954
Title: "Reflections: Army vs. McCarthy
Hearings"
Speakers: Atty. Joseph N. Welch
Prof. Richard Field, Harvard Law School
Prof. W. Barton Leach - Harvard Law School
Prof. Arthur Sutherland, Jr. - Harvard Law School
Date: December 10, 1954
Title: "U.N. Charter Revision: Pandora's Box or
Panacea?"
Speakers: Norman Cousins - Pres., United World Federalists;
Ed., Saturday Review
Ernest A. Gross - Former Deputy U.S. Representative to
the United Nations
Dr. Frank P. Graham - U.N. Representative for India and
Pakistan
Moderator: Prof. Milton Katz, Harvard Law School
Date: February 18, 1955
Title: "Ethics in Politics"
Speakers: Carmine G. DeSapio - Sec. of State of New York;
Leader of Tammany Hall
Jacob K. Javits - Attorney General of New York
William Benton - Former Senator from Connecticut
Moderator: David F. Cavers - Associate Dean, Harvard Law
School
Date: March 11, 1955
Title: "Loyalty, Security and Individual Freedom"
Speakers: Roy M. Cohn - Former Chief Council, U.S. Sen.
Investigations Sub-Cmte.
Alan Barth - Author, Loyalty of Free Men;
Editorial Writer, Washington Post
Ralph S. Brown, Jr. - Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Moderator: Richard H. Field - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 18, 1955
Title: "Harmony in the Middle East - Part I"
Speakers: H. E. Abdul Monem Rifa'i - Ambassador from Jordan to
the United States
Dr. Stringfellow Barr - Pres., St. John's College;
Author, Let's Join the Human Race
Moderator: Prof. George Smith - Harvard Business School
Date: March 19, 1955
Title: "Harmony in the Middle East - Part II"
Speakers: H. E. Abba Eban - Ambassador From Israel to the U.S.
and the U.N.
H. E. Dr. Benjamin Nuņez - Ambassador from Costa Rica
to the U.N.
Moderator: Prof. William Langer, Harvard
Date: October 21, 1955
Title: "The Fifth Amendment"
Speakers: C. Dickerman Williams - Attorney, New York City
Irwin N. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Prof. Samuel Beer - Chairman, Government
Department, Harvard College
Date: November 18, 1955
Title: "The Jury System (The University of Chicago
Study)"
Speakers: Prof. Karl N. Llewellyn - chairman of the study
"questioned by a panel of law school professors"
Date: December 9, 1955
Title: "Political Issues and Perspectives in 1956"
Speakers: Rep. Tobert H. MacDonald '43 ('47) - D.,
Massachusetts
Robert Braucher, Harvard Law School
Moderator: John McNaughton, Harvard Law School
Date: December 16, 1955
Title: "The Non-conformist: Liberal or
Conservative?"
Speakers: James A. Wechsler - Editor, The New York Post
William F. Buckley, Jr. - Ed., The Nat'l Review;
Author, McCarthy and His Enemies
Moderator: Prof. Robert E. Keeton, Harvard Law School
Date: February 3, 1956
Title: "The Future of Socialism"
Speakers: Norman Thomas
John Dos Passos
Moderator: Francis A. Allen, Harvard Law School
Date: March 30, 1956
Title: "The Role of the Vice-President"
Speakers: Henry Wallace - Former Vice-President
Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Robert Braucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: April 13, 1956
Title: "Segregation"
Speakers: Marvin F. Griffin - Governor, Georgia
Jacob K. Javits - Attorney General, New York
Moderator: David F. Cavers - Associate Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: May 11, 1956
Title: "The Guided Missle Race"
Speaker: Trevor Gardner - Former Asst. Secretary, U.S. Air
Force
Panel: W. Barton Leach - Brig. Gen. & Assoc. Counsel, U.S.
Air Force
E. L. Katzenbach, Jr. - Assoc. Director, Harvard Defense
Studies Program
G. B. Kistiakowsky - Professor of Chemistry, Harvard
University
Moderator: Livingston Hall - Vice-Dean, Harvard Law School
[PHOTO]
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Date: September 28, 1956
Speaker: Harry S. Truman
Date: October 5, 1956
Title: "Eisenhower and the Independent Voter"
Speaker: Harold E. Stassen - Special Assistant to President
Eisenhower;
Deputy U.S.
Representative on the U.N. Disarmament Commission
Moderator: Erwin N. Griswold - Dean, Harvard Law School
Date: November 9, 1956
Title: "The Satellite Revolts: Their Meaning"
Speakers: Leon Volkov - Former Colonel, USSR Air Force;
Writer, Newsweek
Marek St. Korowicz - Former Polish U.N. Delegate
Bela Varga - Vice-Premier of Hungary until 1947
Date: November 16, 1956
Title: "Education for the Future"
Speakers: The Rt. Hon. Chuter Ede - Former Home Secretary;
Educational Leader
Howard Mumford Jones - Professor of English, Harvard
Moderator: Francis Keppel - Dean, Faculty of Education,
Harvard University
Date: December 6, 1956
Title: "The Contemporary Composer and His Public"
Speakers: Aaron Copeland - Composer
Otto Luening - Composer; Professor of Music, Columbia
University
Irving Fine - Critic; Professor of Music, Brandeis
University
Date: February 8, 1957
Title: "Censorship: Movies & TV"
Speakers: Godfrey P. Schmidt
Morris L. Ernst - President, Aware, Inc.
Patrick Murphy Malin - Executive, Dir., American Civil
Liberties Union
Moderator: Benjamin Kaplan - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: February 15, 1957
Title: "The Changing University"
Speakers: Robert Maynard Hutchins - President, Fund for the
Republic, Inc.
Nathan Marsh Pusey - President, Harvard University
Henry Steele Commager - Author; Professor, Amherst College
Moderator: Erwin D. Canham - Editor, Christian Science
Monitor
Date: March 1, 1957
Title: "Radioactive Fallout"
Speaker: Dr. Shields Warren - Former Medical Director, AEC
Panel: Dr. Victor Weisskopf - Professor of Physics, M.I.T.
Dr. Walter Selove - Professor of Physics, Univ. of
Pennsylvania
Dr. Louis Osborn - Director, Synchrotron Lab, M.I.T.
Moderator: Dean David A. Cavers - Harvard Law School
Date: March 8, 1957
Title: "What's So Funny?"
Speakers: Allan Funt - Host, "Candid Camera"
Al Capp, Cartoonist
Moderator: James A. Maclachlan - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 15, 1957
Speaker: Danny Kaye
Introduction: Louis Loss - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: March 22, 1957
Title: "The U.S. and the U.N."
Speakers: Norman Thomas - Lecturer, Former Presidential
Candidate
Clarence Manion - Former Dean, Notre Dame Law School;
Chairman, "For America;"
Former
Chairman, Hoover Commission
Date: March 18, 1957
Topic: Cyprus
Speaker: Archbishop Makarios
Panelists: Prof. A. J. Meyer - Assoc. Dir., Harvard Ctr. for
Middle Eastern Studies
George F. Kirk - Visiting Professor, Harvard
Carlyle Morgan - Editorial Writer, Christian Science
Monitor
Moderator: Milton Katz - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: November 1, 1957
Speaker: Aneurin Bevan - British Labor Party Leader
Moderator: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Date: December 6, 1957
Title: "The Civil Rights Act"
Speaker: Strom Thrumond - Senator (D), South Carolina
Panelists: Robert Baucher - Professor, Harvard Law School
Richard. B. Dellheim - Boston University
Fr. Robert F. Drinan - Dean, Boston College Law School
Moderator: Prof. Fleming James, Jr.
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: March 7, 1958
Title: "Russia Today"
Speaker: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Moderator: Livingston Hall - Vice-Dean, Harvard Law School
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: March 28, 1958
Title: "Fact and Fiction in Administrative Law"
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Schwartz - ousted investigator, House
Committee
on Legislative Oversight
Panelists: Clark Byse - Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
John Gaus - Professor of Government,
Harvard
Phil Neal - Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: David F. Cavers - Associate Dean, Harvard Law School
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: April 11, 1958
Title: "The Communist Party in America"
Speaker: Mr. John Gates - Former Editor, The Daily Worker
Panel: Prof. Abram Chayes - Harvard Law School
Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski - Harvard University
Assoc. Prof. Irving Howe - Brandeis University
Moderator: Louis M. Lyons - Curator, The Nieman Fellowship
Date: April 25, 1958
Title: "Manners"
Speakers: Mike Wallace
Cleveland Amory
Date: October 17, 1958
Title: "The United States and the United Arab
Republic"
Speaker: H. E. Abba Eban - Israeli Ambassador
Moderator: Professor Richard Baxter
Date: October 24, 1958
Speaker: Mikhail Menshikov - Russian Ambassador to the United States
Moderator: Mark DeWolfe Howe - Professor, Harvard Law School
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: December 5, 1958
Title: "Racial Policy of South Africa"
Speaker: W. C. DuPlessis - Ambassador from the Union of South
Africa
Panel: Erwin Griswold - Dean - Harvard Law School
Oscar Handlin - Professor of History, Harvard
Jeffrey Butler - Visiting Lecturer on Government from
Oxford University
Date: March 13, 1959
Title: "The Problems of Women's Education"
Chair: Mildred McAfee Horton - Former President, Wellesley
College
Panel: Anne G. Pannell - President, Sweet Briar College
William E. Stevenson - President, Oberlin College
Harold Taylor - President, Sarah Lawrence College
Date: March 26, 1959
Title: "'Howl' and other poems"
Speaker: Allen Ginsberg
With: Gregory Corso
Peter Orlovsky
[NEWS ARTICLE]
Date: April 10, 1959
Title: "Policies of the Democratic Party"
Speakers: Carmine DeSapio
Panel: Robert F. Murphy - Lt. Governor, Massachusetts
Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Moderator: Professor John T. McNaughton
Date: April 17, 1959
Title: "Unification of the Christian Church"
Speakers: Douglas Horton - Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Gustave Weigel, S.J. - Professor of Theology, Woodstock
College
Samuel H. Miller - Dean-Elect, Harvard Divinity School
Julian V. Casserley - Professor of Theology, General
Theological Seminary
Date: April 25, 1959
Title: "The Cuban Revolution"
Speaker: Dr. Fidel Castro - Premier of Cuba
Attendance: approximately 10,000
Venue: Soldiers Field
Moderator: McGeorge Bundy - Dean, Harvard College
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[NEWS ARTICLE]
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Date: November 13, 1959
Title: "Mock Republican Convention"
Speakers: Al "Li'l Abner" Capp
Walt "Pogo" Kelly
Moderator: Richard Field - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: December 4, 1959
Speaker: Edmund G. Brown - Governor of California
Moderator: Samuel Beer - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: December 11, 1959
Title: "Outer Space Symposium"
Panel: George J. Feldman - U.S. Delegate to U.N.
John A. Johnson - General Counsel, NASA
Bruno Rossi - Professor of Physics, M.I.T.
Dr. Homer J. Stewart, Evaluation Director, NASA
Moderator: Dr. G. B. Kistiakowsky - Scientific Advisor to
President Eisenhower