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Bevan to Speak

November 1957
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Bevan to Speak
November 1957

ANEURIN BEVAN, fiery member of the British Labour Party, will visit Dartmouth on November 4 to speak to the Great Issues Course. He will discuss Britain Today."

Following Mr. Bevan's talk, the seniors will turn to automation and inflation as economic problems. On these topics they will hear John Diebold, management consultant; Prof. Clyde E. Dankert of Dartmouth's Department of Economics; and Paul A. Samuelson, Professor of Economics at M.I.T.

Succeeding speakers up to the Christmas vacation will include Gordon W. Allport, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, who formerly taught at Dartmouth; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Everett R. Clinchy, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews; Rabbi David J. Seligson of Central Synagogue, New York; M. F. Ashley Montagu, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers; Paul B. Sears, chairman of the Yale University Conservation Program; and H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth.

On October 15 the Dartmouth College Lecture Series for the year opened with Prof. J. B. Rhine, Duke University parapsychologist, who spoke on "The Mind and Its Limits." As a controversial figure in the field of psychology, who has expounded theories concerning mental telepathy, psychokinesis and clairvoyance, he drew a large audience to 105 Dartmouth.

Other visiting lecturers during the past month have included C. D. Coryell, Professor of Physics at M.I.T.; Dr. Willard Hanna of the American Universities Field Staff, who spoke on Indonesia; and Jerome L. Heldring, editor of Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, whose talk featured the observance of United Nations Day.