Great Issues Speakers

THE fifth year of Dartmouth's Great Issues Course was opened October 1 with a lecture by Edward A. Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, who spoke on "The Context of Our Times." Other speakers during the month were President Dickey, "Liberal Arts and Great Issues"; Erwin D. Canham, editor of The ChristianScience Monitor, "Is the Press Free and Responsible?"; Saville R. Davis, American news editor of the same paper, "News and the Radio"; and Gilbert Seldes, author, "Effect of Mass Media on American Culture."

Visiting lecturers for November and early December include Prof. I. A, Richards of Harvard, "The Limitations of Mass Media"; Governor Sherman Ad-ams '20 of New Hampshire, "Issues and Values in American Democracy"; Geoffrey Crowther, editor of The Economist (title unannounced); Prof. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. of Harvard, "The Changing Function of the Modern State"; Prof. Crane Brinton of Harvard, "Communism and Democracy"; and Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of the Du Pont Company, "Individual Incentive and National Development."

Seven members of the Dartmouth faculty are also lecturing during these first two months of the course. They are Allen R. Foley '20, Professor of History, who is course director this year; George F. Theriault '33, Professor of Sociology, "American Culture and the Press"; C. N. Allen '24, Professor of Psychology, "Techniques of Modern Propaganda—Advertising as a Special Case"; Dayton D. McKean, Professor of Government, "Private Group Action"; William W. Ballard '28, Professor of Zoology, "Two Sides to Science"; Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History, "Feaas a Way of Life"; and Clyde E. Dankert, Professor of Economics, "Why Has Labor Grown Powerful?"