Countess Alexandra Tolstoy spoke at the April 6 chapel service under the auspices of the Belles Lettres Literary Society. She spoke of her father, Leo Tolstoy, and of the secularism and militarism of Soviet Russia.
Paul Blanshard, Director of the City Affairs Committee of New York City, spoke at the March 14 chapel service on the subject "Industrial Planning in the Machine Age". He argued that the theory of supply and demand underlying capitalism had failed, that a National Economic Planning Board should be created, and that the distribution of wealth should be based on merit, with a minimum yearly salary of $2,000 and a maximum of $10,000.
Paul Blanshard, Director of the City Affairs Committee of New York City, spoke in Bosler Hall on the subject, "Must Cities Be Corrupt?" at the invitation of the YMCA. He argued that city government has not kept pace with the progress of city and country life, detailed the corruption of the New York City government, and advocated for public ownership of utilities as a means of diminishing corruption.
Major Lynn Adams of the Pennsylvania State Police spoke to the YMCA about the crime engendered by Prohibition. He argued that liquor was better controlled by education than by law.
The Hon. Richard J. Beamish, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and guest of honor at the annual Dickinsonian banquet, spoke at said banquet on his experiences as a journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Beamish condemned the monopolization of newspapers in America and recounted stories of his assignments, including President Herbert Hoover's trip to South America and the Scopes Trial. The banquet was held at the Molly Pitcher hotel in Carlisle.
The debate team discussed whether or not all intergovernmental world war debts and reparations should be cancelled before a meeting of the International Relations Club. The debate was held in the YMCA room in Old West.
The YMCA hosted a lecture by Mr. Harry Anslinger, United States Commissioner of Narcotics, on drug addiction (particularly in Egypt), crime related to drugs, and government efforts to crack down on the drug trade. He showed several short films and slides as part of his lecture.
Mr. C. Spaeth, of the North German Lloyd steamship line, spoke to a combined meeting of the Mohler Scientific Society and the German Club on the subject of the history of shipbuilding and shipping. His address was followed by a film screening.
The YMCA sponsored a visit to campus by Charles H. Corbett on December 1, 1932. Corbett spoke on social and economic world problems at the chapel service, in economics classes, in an informal discussion, and at a YMCA meeting.
Ralph W. Stone, geologist employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, addressed a large gathering of the Mohler Scientific Club on the subject of limestone caves in Pennsylvania.
Rev. Irvin W. Underhiel spoke at the chapel service on his Presbyterian missionary work in Africa. He was a native of Toulissa, Africa.
Dr. James N. Rule, Pennsylvania superintendent of education, delivered a chapel address on the life of John Dickinson in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dickinson's birth.
C. Telford Erickson, chief executive of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture, spoke at the Dickinson chapel service on October 11, 1932. He emphasized the horrible living conditions in Albania.
In his second chapel address of the 1932 Week of Prayer, Dr. Peter B. Emmons argued that "Christ as a personality was the true revelation and expression of God to man".
The annual Week of Prayer began on April 12, 1932 with a chapel address by Dr. Peter B. Emmons of Scranton on "What Constitutes a Christian". Dr. Emmons argued that a Christian is someone who has accepted Christ as his leader and models his personality after that of Christ.
Dr. Guy Carlton Lee, Chinese graduate of Yale University, spoke in the March 31 chapel service about Christian education in China. His visit to campus marked the beginning of the annual Dickinson in China drive.
Dr. William Pearson, Dean of the Hahnemann Medical College, spoke to the Mohler Scientific Club on April 6, 1932. Pearson began his speech by discouraging the study of medicine, then focused on the subject of biochemistry, emphasizing the importance of studying organic chemistry.
Josephus Daniels, editor, publisher, and Secretary of the United States Navy from 1913-1921, addressed the College as part of its 1919 Commencement exercises. Secretary Daniels also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Major C. Douglass Booth, noted English writer, lecturer and authority on Balkan affairs, spoke during the chapel period on the possibility of disarmament. He argued that the League of Nations would only be successful if the U.S. and Russia joined it. The International Relations Club sponsored Booth's visit.
An Inter-Religious Harmony Seminar was held on the Dickinson campus on February 24, 1932. Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish representatives discussed their differences in a round-table discussion. According to The Dickinsonian, Dickinson was the first Pennsylvania college to hold such a gathering.
Sponsored by the German Club, James Morgan Read, '29, addressed faculty, students, and townspeople in the YMCA room of Old West. He compared the cultural interests of German and American students, arguing that the two groups should know more about each other's activities. He also spoke of the plight of Germany due to reparations from WWI.
Edwin Markham, author of the famous poem "The Man With the Hoe", addressed the student body in chapel on the subject of poetry before reciting his own works.
Professor C. R. W. Thomas addressed the Belles Lettres Society on Tuesday, December 8th, at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. He argued that Germany and the U.S. were equally nationalistic in different ways and that "the present Hitlerite movement" in Germany, which he did not support, was nevertheless the "natural and logical development of the economic and political conditions in Germany these past ten years."
Professor E. Larkin of Gettysburg College, formerly of West China Union University, spoke at a Dickinson chapel service about the Dickinson in China movement.
Bradford P. Raymond, president of Wesleyan University from 1889-1908, addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.