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Visitors

March 1954
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Visitors
March 1954

AMONG the five speakers scheduled to come to Hanover to address the Great Issues course in March are Barbara Ward, author and assistant editor of the LondonEconomist, a popular lecturer in the course; Sidney Hook, Professor of Philosophy at New York University; and V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations. The overall topic is "Survival and the Responsible Use of Power."

Willard Thorp, Professor of Economics at Amherst College, formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, speaks March 1 on "The United States in the World Economy." India's U.N. delegate, Mr. Krishna Menon, has for his March 8 subject, "The Hope for Democracy in Asian Nationalism"; while George Harrar, Deputy Director for Agriculture, Division of Natural Sciences and Agriculture, of the Rockefeller Foundation, will speak on "Good Neighbors at Work - A Case History," on March 11. March 15 brings Professor Hook to lecture on "The Ideology of International Communism." Barbara Ward concludes the month's lecture schedule, speaking March 22 on "Moral Realities in the International Outlook."

February lecturers in the Great Issues course were Paul Nitze, president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation, formerly director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State; Harry Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Syracuse University; Dr. David J. Bradley '38, author; and Paul Martin, Minister of National Health and Welfare, Dominion of Canada.

Other visiting lecturers who spoke before College audiences during February were the Hon. Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., Republican Representative from New Jersey's fifth district; James Murphy, chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower Congressional Committee; and Dr. Hugh M. Raup, Arctic specialist, Professor of Plant Geography at Harvard University, and director of the Harvard Forest. Dr. Paul E. Scherer, Brown Professor of Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary, was guest preacher at a Union Service in Rollins Chapel on Sunday, February 21.