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The article offers information on the professional and political career of Ronald Wilson Reagan. It states that Reagan as an actor did 50 movies including "King's Row," "Santa Fe Trail," and "Dark Victory." It adds that Reagan had decided to run for Governor of California in 1966 opposing Governor Pat Brown, who was about to seek a third four year term. Furthermore, Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild for six terms and became a lecturer for General Electric Co.

This article presents information on the visit of British writer Bertrand Russell to the U.S. But Bertrand Russell is not specifically English or a lecturer. He is not only one of the great philosophers; he is also one of the keenest social thinkers and one of the most eminent internationalists living, and his internationalism rests upon the surest of all foundations: a steadfast record of pacifism during the first World War. During his stay in the U.S. Bertrand Russell has contributed a lot to writings through the columns of The Nation, and it is hoped that many of the readers will be able to hear him in person during his stay in the United States.

Presents information on qualities and work of the people who have contributed to the field of science. Development of enthusiasm and curious nature of young scientists; Method used to get a doctorate degree in science in the U.S.; Academic background of scientist Jack Brown; Interest of scientists to discover something new in the field of science, without caring about the results; Nomenclature of shells gathered by Brown from a nearby river; Development of the scientific career of Brown; Qualities of Brown as a lecturer of crustacea; Significance of trivial experiments performed by professional scientists; Types of mind interested in the phenomena and laws of nature; Need of using a coordination of interest and purpose by scientists.

The article reports on a conference that was held on the weekend of January 29 to 31, 1971. U.S. Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger presided over the meeting. The gathering was sponsored by an ad hoc organization called Project Runnymede. The author attended the conference at which Kissinger spent two hours talking and answering questions on American foreign policy. The meeting was officially off the record. Kissinger reminded his audience that if his remarks were reported it would make it difficult for him to meet other groups in the future. Kissinger was not the first speaker of the evening.

The article presents information on the Macmillan Co. having just issued the first volume of "Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome." The volume contains papers by the director of the school, R. Chard Norton, by Thomas Ashby Jr., the vice-president of the British School in Rome, by Arthur Mahler, lecturer in the American School, as well as by several of the fellows and students. The price of the book is 3 dollars. Ginn & Co.'s book "Standard English Classics" suits very well the chunky volume of Henry Esmond, edited for school use by Hamilton B. Moore.

The article focuses on political developments. The year which has just closed has supplied the same material as all years for reflections on the uncertainty of human affairs and on the probability of the unforeseen. These will be made in the usual profusion by hosts of writers and speakers during the present week owing to the revival of business in the two nations in which most moralizing is done by the press, the U.S. and Great Britain, and will contain fewer commendations of frugality and simplicity of living as the true source of happiness. Some of the Republican papers are trying to persuade themselves that there is no analogy between the case which is now pending in Maine and the one which took place in Louisiana in 1876.

The article features Karl Ruppenthal, a flight captain for Trans World Airlines Inc. in San Franciso, California-New York service and a Stanford University business lecturer. It mentions the influence of Ruppenthal on the transportation business which include railroading, trucking, maritime shipping and freight forwarding. Ruppenthal, the director of Stanford University's transportation management program, is responsible in conducting a summer course for traffic and transportation men.

Presents information on the formation of the White Citizens Council in Texas. Information about the meeting held in the Courthouse in Texas to organize the council; Speakers at the meeting; Effect of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's handling of the Arkansas situation on the rural and small town Southerners.

Focuses on the organization of the first National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit, Michigan. Aim of the conference to economically develop the black community in the region; Information on the invited speakers in the conference; Description of various proposals raised during the conference; Information on the Manifesto which the Detroit Conference approved by a two-to-one margin; Details of various religious rights demanded by blacks during the conference; Rejection of the Manifesto by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Comments on two conferences on U.S. foreign policy in 1963. Views on the speakers and audience at the conferences; Needs of emerging nations; Proposal of a U.S. senator regarding the appointment of officials in top foreign policy posts.

The article discusses the key points made by commencement speaker Clarence Manion at the Pennsylvania State College. Manion, a former dean of the Notre Dame University College of Law, stressed that modern education has done a poor job in teaching students how to find facts. He relates that the social sciences have become allergic to the idea of instilling absolute conviction. Manion believes that equivocation on matters of political and moral issues threatens American life and the successful rejection of Communism.

Focuses on a dinner in New York City which was attended by radicalism and conservatism advocates, with H. G. Wells as guest of honor. Characterization of Wells as a parlor Bolshevik; Wells' indictment of the existing organization and conduct of society; Response of the succeeding speakers to Wells' fatalism; Proneness of Americans to optimistic fatalism.

Germany's recovery of part of her lost colonies is rapidly becoming an acute international question. For the first time since the war the press sent special correspondents into former German territory in Africa and, the South Seas. The biggest German motion-picture concern, the Ufa, dispatched an expedition to the African ex-colonies and the resultant film, itself calculated to revive colonial yearnings, was accompanied throughout its exhibition in Germany by a lecturer who emphasized the propagandist motive of this imperialist travelogue.

The talking talent is not one of those personal gifts, which Englishmen delight to honor. The article focuses on English statesman and orator John Bright. Bright has a merit, which is not a very common one among popular, speakers. He uses pure English, avoiding alike the opposite vulgarisms of bombast and of slang. His style is simply perfect, racy, strong, sharp and clear. His almost infallible taste in the choice of words, is the key to his victory over the orator-scorning fastidiousness of the educated classes of England.

These are the days of popular lectures and familiar treatises on scientific subjects. The popular lecturer on science is exposed to a third temptation: speaking usually on subjects with which his audiences have but very slight acquaintance, he is checked by no fear of competent criticism of his method, or of any immediate reply to loose or incorrect statements. In speaking of the dangers which attend the process of making science familiar, people have no desire to gainsay the necessity of diffusing scientific information as widely as possible. But in pursuing this desirable end, it is of primary importance that nothing but real science should be diffused, and that the methods of teaching employed should be, before everything, characterized by simplicity, fairness, and humility.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on teaching of English in schools and colleges in England; Issues related to lecturers and colleges in the United States; Collection of novels in the Brookline Library, Massachusetts.

The article focuses on the various political developments around the world during 1886. First article focuses on the U.S. president Benjamin Harrison. After the expiration of his term in the office, he got an offer of lectureship on law in the Leland Stanford University. Another article focuses on biblical criticism. The English Wesleyans have just had a discussion of "the higher criticism" of the Bible on their hands. Another article focuses on the Republican party in Spain. The new prime minister of Spain said that the offending Republican had already found sufficient punishment in the fact that not a single one of his friends had joined him in his revolutionary cheer.

The article reports that business, government, and labor gathered in Washington, D.C. in 1950 to discuss improving working conditions. Speakers in the meeting discussed the problems of a poor working environment and revealed that improved working conditions lead to better worker morale and increased working efficiency. Suggestions were offered by the speakers including the use of light-colored desk tops and the use of white ceilings for maximum light reflection.

This article presents information on several books and publications. Estes and Laurat, a newly-established publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts and the agents of Appleton & Co., will continue the publication of Lee & Shepard's series called "Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science," and join with it to another to be called "Half-Hour Recreations in Natural History." James Anthony Froude, the historian, last evening, gave the first of five lectures which are to be given in the Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association on Wednesday and Friday evenings of this week and next. His subject is the "Relations between England and Ireland."

Not many years ago a lecturer on literature, of more than local reputation and of unusual talent for catching the attention of the typical summer-school public, commented somewhat on the gloomy, depressing tone of Russian authors: "Just think of even the titles of their works! 'Dead Souls'! The very name is enough to send a shiver through one's frame!" Poor Gogol! The lecturer was not more ignorant of him than are most other professors of literature, but he ought to have read at least a few pages of a book that is a spiritual cousin of "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Gentle Grafter" before he indulged in reflections on its serio-comic title.

The article discusses the author's effort in finding the answer to the question "who is he". Inspecting autobiographical problem at close range, the author see that it comprises problems; united by a certain wholly mysterious moment which signifies self discovery. The author is only a writer. Two questions now make their appearance. The first-what constitutes this writing of his, can be readily answered, his writing consists of a pair of miscalled novels; a brace of plays, one in prose, the other in blank verse; nine books of poems; an indeterminate number of essays; an untitled volume of satire; and a ballet scenario. The second question where, in all this material, do he find his stance as a writer most clearly expressed? can be answered almost as readily, he find it expressed most clearly in the later miscalled novel, the two plays, perhaps twenty poems, and half a dozen of the essays.

Faith in the democratic process has recently been repudiated in some places where it should find its strongest support. Within the last year, many university administrators have assumed the right to sift ideas, which speakers wished to discuss on invitation of various student groups and they have forbidden the expression of ideas by persons whom they considered unqualified or subversive. Speaker bans have been enforced at the University of California, Michigan State University, Ohio State University and the New York City colleges, to name but a few.

This article profiles the life of a Reverend with pseudonym as Lewis Carrol. the Reverend had been ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford in the year 1981. He had already spent eleven years as undergraduate and lecturer at the university, and was destined to add another thirty-six years there before death cut short his residence. His life, in fact, was spent in an almost monastic retirement. He emerged, it is true, to attend the theater-although at times he underwent a struggle with his conscience when he did so; he was a frequent and gracious dinner host-until he arrived at middle life, when even this became too strenuous for him.

The commander of the local post of the American Legion was explaining his action to the chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Woman's Club and the lecturer from out of town. Obviously he was not particularly pleased with himself or very proud of what he had done. He made it clear that it was not of his own initiative, but under specific instructions by resolution adopted, that he had waited upon the officers of the woman's club in company with the ex-commander. They had made no threats of interference with the lecture, as similar representatives from the same post had two years before, thereby securing the cancellation of that speaker.

The article presents information about Henry Rutgers Marshall, who died in New York on May 2, 1927 was an unusual type of public servant. An architect of high standing, a distinguished critic, a university lecturer, an author of six important works on aesthetic and philosophical subjects, he spent the last eight years of his life as secretary of the Municipal Art Commission of the City of New York. He devoted himself to the difficult and often trying labor of passing upon all the architectural and communal undertakings that came before the Art Commission of the metropolis for approval.