Professor Ralph Schecter of the English Department delivered a lecture called, "Arthur Guiterman a Newspaper Poet." MSchecter discussed Guiterman's style of poetry and read some of Guiterman's animal and children poems.

Edward Newton, a Philadelphia manufacturer and book collector, delivered a lecture on the history of novels to a huge audience of students and townspeople. Newton traced the development of the novel from the beginning and importance of the English novel. Newton identified the first book labeled...

Dr. Robert S. Conway, classical scholar from the United Kingdom, gave a lecture on Caesar in Bosler Hall as part of the James Henry Morgan Lecture Series on Roman Builders of Europe.  Dr. Conway focused on repudiating Theodor Mommsen's well-known account of Caesar and argued that Caesar was in...

Major Herbert Taylor, of the Carlisle Medical Field Service School, spoke to the Mohler Scientific Club about scientific research performed in army medicine.

Dr. Lee Driver, authority on the life and works of poet James Whitcomb Riley, gave a lecture on those subjects to the Belles Lettres Literary Society in the YMCA room of Old West. Dr. Driver worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.

The Mohler Scientific Club, under the guidance of Howard Blair, '31, sponsored a demonstration of a television and a lecture about "this coming development of science" in the Tome Scientific Building.

In his second talk in his 1931 Week of Prayer series "The Application of the Principles of Jesus to Modern Life", Dr. A. Bruce Curry spoke about "the life which attempts to express itself in our social institutions".  He encouraged students to live with personality and with an objective in mind...

Dr. Bruce Curry, guest lecturer for the 1931 Week of Prayer, gave his third and final address of the week on the subject of the prevalence of primitive beliefs, superstitions, and "magical interpretations" in Protestant churches in the US.

United States Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts addressed the College as part of its 1931 Commencement exercises. Justice Owens also received an honorary degree from the College.

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...

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.

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...