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Great Issues Lectures

December 1948
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Great Issues Lectures
December 1948

THE GREAT ISSUES COURSE last month announced the list of lecturers for its third main section, "Modern Man's Political Loyalties." Among the distinguished speakers who will visit the campus are Geoffrey Crowther of London, editor of The Economist; President W. K. Jordan of Radcliffe College; and professors from Harvard, Columbia, New York University and Syracuse.

Mr. Crowther will speak Jan. 24 on "Can Free Enterprise and a Planned Economy Be Reconciled?" President Jordan, who participated in the course last year, discussed "The Nature of the Liberal Society" on Nov. 29. Other lecturers during the next two months are: Dec. 2, Michael Karpovich, Professor of History at Harvard, "Russian Traditions in Soviet Life"; Dec. 6, Ernest J. Simmons, Professor of Slavic Language at Columbia, "Soviet Concepts of Democracy"; Dec. 13, Sidney Hook, Professor of Philosophy at N.Y.U.,

"The Philosophy and Strategy of International Communism"; and Jan. 10, T. V. Smith, Professor of Citizenship and Philosophy, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, "Democracy as a State of Mind."

Four members of the Dartmouth faculty are also delivering important lectures in the third section of Great Issues. They are: Prof. Francis W. Gramlich, "Political Ideals and Man's Nature"; Prof. Arthur M. Wilson, "Democracy in the Western World"; Dean Stearns Morse, "Fascism as a State of Mind"; and Prof. Earl R. Sikes, "Non-Marxian Socialism."