1950s
Rudolf Pechel (1956-1957)
Jan 30, 1957
“Freedom in Struggle” Rudolf Pechel was a German liberal, journalist, publisher of Deutsche Rundschau, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1950, he was the President of the German Academy in Language and Poetry. Pechel was well-known for both his writings on [...]
S.E. Morison (1955-1956)
Jan 30, 1956
“Freedom in Contemporary Society” Samuel Eliot Morison was professor of history at Harvard University. During World War I he served as a private in the US Army. He also served as the American Delegate on the Baltic Commission of the Paris Peace Conference until June 17, [...]
Frank H. Underhill (1954-1955)
Jan 30, 1955
“Canadian Liberal Democracy in 1955” Frank H. Underhill was a writer and radio commentator, as well as a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He was a noted Canadian social democrat and public intellectual. Underhill was the first individual to be the Dunning [...]
George V. Ferguson (1954-1955)
Nov 15, 1954
“Freedom of the Press” George V. Ferguson was the editor of the Montreal Star and a radio commentator on international affairs. During the First World War, he served in France. He was a Rhodes scholar from the University of Alberta, and his newspaper experience included the [...]
C. Day Lewis (1953-1954)
Jan 30, 1954
“Notable Images of Virtue” Cecil Day Lewis was professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, a position he held from 1951 to 1956. He authored several studies of poetry as well as two books of poems including Country Comets (1928) and Overtures to Death (1938). He also [...]
T.V. Smith (1952-1953)
Jan 30, 1953
“Man’s Threefold Will to Freedom” Thomas Vernor Smith was the Maxwell professor of citizenship and philosophy at the University of Syracuse. He also served a term in the Illinois state senate and was a Congressman-at-large for the state for one session (1939-1941). He was [...]
Herbert Butterfield (1951-1952)
Jan 31, 1952
“Liberty in the Modern World” Herbert Butterfield was elected Chair in Modern History at Cambridge University in 1944 after 20 years as a fellow at Peterhouse College.. He taught modern history, especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and authored a number of [...]
Sir Richard Livingstone (1950-1951)
Jan 30, 1951
“Education and the Spirit of the Age” Sir Richard Livingstone Livingstone was a classics professor at Corpus Christie College, Oxford University. From 1924-1933, Livingstone served as the Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, overseeing the growth of the [...]