Moore Lecturer

ISAAC JOSLIN Cox '96, professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University and a distinguished Latin American authority, returned to Hanover for six weeks this fall on the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation. His series of classroom dis- cussions and public lectures formed a part of the Dartmouth program to promote in- ter-American relations and also marked a new utilization of the Moore Foundation.

Professor Cox on October 14 opened a series of six lectures by members of the faculty on the general subject, "The World Crisis." The program was arranged by the Central Lecture Committee of the Council on Student Organizations in order to give students unable to attend certain courses the chance to hear professors lecture out- side the classroom.

In his opening address, Professor Cox spoke on the basis for understanding be- tween the countries of Latin America and the United States and in his second lecture, a week later, dealt with "The Solidarity of the Americas." Professor Cox, on his retire- ment from Northwestern this September, had been professor of history there for 22 years and chairman of the department since 1927. In 1918 he was a member of a special United States research foundation to study educational conditions in Mexico. Among his published works are The West FloridaControversy, Higher Education in theCaribbean, Nicaragua and the UnitedStates, and Argentina, Brazil, and Chilesince Independence.

Other November lectures in the series were given by Frank M. Anderson, professor emeritus of the history department, who discussed "One Mistake in Regard to the War"; by Prof. John C. Adams, who came to the history department this fall from Princeton University, on "The Balkans"; and by Dr. Bernard Brodie of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study who is now a member of the political science department. John M. Mecklin, professor emeritus of sociology, will give the fifth lecture of the series on January 13, and Dr. John Pelenyi, former Hungarian Minister to the United States, who is teaching a special defense course on power politics, will give the concluding talk.