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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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| 1925 | |||
| January 12th | D. Parry Forst Symposium Member | Developments in Ceramic Manufacture | |
| February 9th | George N. J. Sommer, M.D. Fellow, American College of Surgeons | Hobbies: Their Therapeutic Value | |
| March 9th | Charles H. Brown Former Congressman | Some Reflections on Congressional Practice | |
| April 13th | Hamilton Schuyler Rector, Trinity Church, Trenton | Athletic Games and Sports Considered from an Ethical Standpoint | |
| May 11th | General Hugh L. Scott | The Sign Language of the American Indian | |
| October 19th | John H. Logan New Jersey Commissioner of Education | Problems of the Commission of Education | |
| November 16th | Elmer L. Shaffer, M.D. | The Place of the Laboratory in Medicine | |
| December 14th | Hamilton Schuyler Rector, Trinity Church, Trenton | Religious Beginnings in Trenton: An Historical Paper | |
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| 1926 | |||
| January 11th | Leroy A. Wilkes | Some Observations on Austria | |
| February 15th | William A. Wetzel, Ph.D. Principal, Trenton High School | Reflections of a High School Principal After Twenty-Five Years of Service | |
| March 8th | Frank Graham Holmes Chief Designer, Lennox, Incorporated | Modern Decorative Art at the Paris Exposition | |
| April 12th | Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Superintendent, New Jersey State Police | The Work of the State Police in New Jersey | |
| May 17th | Walter L. Whittlesey Professor, Princeton University | The Spirit of '76 and the Bunk of '26: Being Some Observations on the Declaration of Independence | |
| October 18th | William Libbey, D.Sc. Professor of Physical Geography, Princeton University | Reflections of a Globe Trotter | |
| November 8th | H. E. C. Liu, Ph.D. Educational Secretary, National Committee of the YMCA | The Present Crisis in China | |
| December 13th | James Kerney Editor, Trenton Times | Back From the Wild West | |
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| 1927 | |||
| January 10th | John W. Bishop, Jr. | Some Survivals of Primitive Ideas in Modern Thought | |
| February 14th | Narayan Krishna, Ph.D. A Native of India | The Message of the East to the West | |
| March 14th | Leland O. Howard, PH.D. Chief, Bureau of Entomology, US Department of Agriculture | Work of the US Bureau of Entomology | |
| April 11th | No Meeting | ||
| May 16th | Edward Grant Conklin, Ph.D. Professor, Princeton University | Why Teach Education? | |
| October 10th | No Meeting | ||
| November 21st | James Kerney Editor, Trenton Times | European Affairs | |
| December 12th | James R. Barber Symposium Member | The Citizen and the Law | |
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| 1928 | |||
| January 16th | Herman C. Mueller President, Mueller Mosaic Company | Industrial Education | |
| February 13th | George B. Ford Vice President, Technical Advisory Corporation | City Planning: The Future of Trenton | |
| March 12th | Charles W. Kennedy Chairman, Faculty Committee of Athletics, Princeton University | The Benefits of Amateur Sport | |
| April 9th | Wesley A. O'Leary, Asst. New Jersey Commissioner of Education and Mr. Mason, Superintendent, Vocational School of Patterson, NJ | Vocational Education, The Patterson and County Plans | |
| May 14th | Edward W. Kemmerer, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Finance, Princeton University | Experiences in Advising on Currency Adjustments in Other Countries | |
| October 8th | Charles H. Browne Princeton | Trip to Spain by Sailboat | |
| November 19th | Charles P. Messick Secretary, New Jersey Civil Service Commission | Selecting Personnel for Public Positions | |
| December 10th | Harlan Updegraff, Ph.D. | Progressive Education and the New Jersey School Survey | |
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| 1929 | |||
| January 14th | Colonel Rusself C. Langdon, USA | The Place of the Reserve Corps in our National Defense | |
| February 11th | Edward C. Stokes, LL.D. Former Governor, State of New Jersey | A Visit to Cuba | |
| March 11th | Jay B. Tomlinson Solicitor, Township of Chesterfield | The Romance of Bordentown's History | |
| April 8th | John N. Brooks Symposium Member | The Water Supply Situation in New Jersey | |
| May 20th | Colonel Ralph Heywood Isham | Manuscripts of the Celebrated James Boswell | |
| October 14th | No Meeting | ||
| November 18th | Harold W. Close, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, Syrian Protestant College, Beirut | Affairs of Syria | |
| December 16th | Abraham Epstein Secretary, American Association for Old Age Security | Work of the American Association for Old Age Security | |
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| 1930 | |||
| January 13th | Herman C. Mueller President, Mueller Mosaic Company | Impressions I Received During a Visit to Germany | |
| February 10th | Harold W. Dodds, Ph.D. Professor, Princeton University | Municipal Problems Concerning the City of Trenton, with Special Reference to the Annexation of Adjacent Territory | |
| March 10th | Captain Charles H. Jones | Moving Pictures of the New Hudson River Bridge | |
| April 21st | David Fernsler New Jersey Director of the Associated Press | Tasks and Accomplishments of the Associated Press | |
| May 12th | Ellis Ames Ballard Philadelphia Attorney | Literary Items Associated with Rudyard Kipling | |
| October 13th | No Meeting | ||
| November 10th | Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph.D. Professor in Robert College, Constantinople | International Relations | |
| December 8th | Rufus S. Tucker, Ph.D. | The Unhappy Economic State of Affairs Throughout the World | |
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| 1931 | |||
| January 12th | No Meeting | ||
| February 9th | Michail M. Dorizas, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Geography, University of Pennsylvania | Modern Russia and Its Problems | |
| March 9th | James R. Barber Symposium Member | The Early Settlement of Pennsylvania | |
| April 13th | John Van Buren Wicoff President, Broad Street National Bank | Modern Production of Milk | |
| May 11th | Louis Stern Member of the New Jersey Bar | Personal Collection of Etchings | |
| June 1st Special Meeting | General Jay J. Morrow Former Governor of the Panama Canal Zone | Operation of the Panama Canal Zone | |
| October 12th | Frank D. Schroth Publisher, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | A Recent Visit to Russia | |
| November 9th | No Meeting | ||
| December 14th | Louis G. Beers Symposium Member | Some Observations on Investing Money | |
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| 1932 | |||
| January 11th | J. Duncan Spaeth, Ph.D. Professor of English, Princeton University | Edgar Lee Masters' Challenge of Contemporary America | |
| February 15th | H. Alexander Smith Princeton | Recent Observations on Conditions in Southeastern Europe | |
| March 14th | Charles E. Bain, Jr. Alfred P. S. Bellis Herman Mueller Discussion Leaders Edward C. Stokes, LL.D. William A. Wetzel, Ph.D. | Open Discussion of the Pressing Problems of Unemployment | |
| April 18th | Mather Almon Abbott, M.D. Paul Loser Discussion Leaders H. Arthur Smith J. Duncan Spaeth, Ph.D. | Open Discussion of Scholastic and Collegiate Athletics | |
| May 9th | No Meeting | ||
| June 6th Special Meeting | Jacob G. Lipman, Ph.D. Dean of the Agricultural College, Rutgers University | The Land Factor in Our Economic System | |
| October 10th | No Meeting | ||
| November 14th | D. Parry Forst Symposium Member | Discussion on the Recent Election with Talking Moving Pictures of the Candidates; Also a Discussion of the Question of Prohibition | |
| December 12th | No Meeting | ||
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| 1933 | |||
| January 16th | Jean Labatut, Ph.D. School of Architecture, Princeton University | Architecture in France | |
| February 27th | Harry A. Franck Travel Author | A Vagabond Journey Down the Andes | |
| March 20th | Harold W. Dodds Professor, Princeton University | The Possibilities of Economy in the State Government | |
| April 10th | H. Arthur Smith Symposium Member | Review of Moulton and Paszolsky's "War Debts and World Prosperity" | |
| May 8th | No Meeting | ||
| October 16th | Theodore Leslie Shear, Ph.D. Professor, Classical Archeology at Princeton University | Excavations in Ancient Athenian Agora | |
| November 20th | Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, M.D. | Old and Rare Books | |
| December 11th | J. Duncan Spaeth, Ph.D. Professor of English, Princeton University | Germany Under Hitler | |
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| 1934 | |||
| January 8th | A. Crozer Reeves State Senator | Taxes | |
| February 12th | E. Budd Marter Edgewater Park, NJ | Big Game Hunting in Alaska | |
| March 12th | G.R. Ottinger The Bell Telephone Company | A History of Communication | |
| April 16th | Whitney Darrow Vice President, Charles Scribner's Sons | Publishers' Problems | |
| May 14th | Cornelius Weygandt, Ph.D. Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania | Folk Art of the Pennsylvania Dutch | |
| October 8th | Edward R. Johnstone, M.Sc. Superintendent, Vineland Training School | Methods of Handling Mentally Incompetents | |
| November 12th | James Gerald Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics, Princeton University | Economic Planning and the Tariff | |
| December 12th | Karl Scholz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | An Entertaining Address | |
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| 1935 | |||
| January 21st | George Madison Priest, Ph.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Princeton University | Modern German Youth | |
| February 11th | Harlan H. Miller Asst. Professor of Sociology, New Jersey State Teachers College | Lincoln as a Politician | |
| March 11th | Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf Superintendent, New Jersey State Police | Some Interesting Aspects of State Police Activities | |
| April 6th | W. L. Eikenberry, Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Science, New Jersey State Teachers College | The Calendar: Its History and Probable Future | |
| May 20th | Edward Sampson, Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Geology, Princeton University | Mineral Resources and International Relations | |
| October 14th | Roscoe L. West, Ph.D. President, State Teachers College at Hillwood Lakes | Open Discussion | |
| November 18th | William A. Wetzel, Ph.D. Principal, Trenton High School | Observations in Scandinavia | |
| December 9th | Paul Morton City Manager, City of Trenton | Police Radio Communications | |
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| 1936 | |||
| January 13th | John G. Connor Symposium Member | A Modern Exodus: Return of the Hebrews to Palestine | |
| February 10th | William John Ellis Commissioner, New Jersey Social Security Commission | The Recommendations of the New Jersey Social Security Commission | |
| March 9th | Dana Gardner Monro, Ph.D. | Impressions on a Recent Visit to South America | |
| April 13th | George N. J. Sommer, MD Fellow, Americanm College of Surgeons | Fifty Years of Surgery: Then and Now | |
| May 11th | J. Duncan Spaeth, Professor of English, Princeton University | Thirty-One Years of Princeton Teaching - Where are We Heading? | |
| October 12th | Georg Roemmert, M.D. | Micro-Organisms Found in Water and Food and Their Struggle for Existence | |
| November 9th | Lincoln Satterthwaite, Jr. University of Pennsylvania | The Purpose and Some Methods of Maya Archeology | |
| December 14th | Friebis Siegfried Art Teacher, Trenton Senior High School | The Influence of the Christian Story on Art in General and its Symbolic Interpretations | |
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| 1937 | |||
| January 11th | J. Douglas Brown, Ph.D. Department of Economics, Princeton University | Unemployment Insurance | |
| February 8th | Gill Robb Wilson, D.D. Director of Aviation, State of New Jersey | The Relative Merits of Heavier Than Air and Lighter Than Air Aviation | |
| March 15th | Alpheus T. Mason, Ph.D. Professor of Politics, Princeton University | The President's Plan to Increase the Supreme Court | |
| April 12th | Colonel Richard Stockton, VI | A Practical Program to Correct Economic Evils | |
| May 17th | Rollo Walter Brown Neighbor of Edwin Arlington Robinson, an American Poet | Next Door to a Poet | |
| October 11th | F. C. Tarr, Ph.D Chairman of the Spanish Department, Princeton University | The Spanish Paradox: Remarks on the Nature and Background of the Present Struggle in Spain | |
| November 8th | George Madison Priest, Ph.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Princeton University | Conditions in Germany at the Present Time | |
| December 13th | Major Walter D. McCord, USA Professor, Military Science and Tactics, Bordentown Military Institute | The Organization of the Army and Its Peacetime Activities | |
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| 1938 | |||
| January 10th | Gerald Wendt, Ph.D. Director of the American Institute of New York | The Science Back of the News | |
| February 14th | Charles R. Rounds Professor, State Teachers College at Hillwood Lakes | Current Issues as Reflected in Current Literature | |
| March 14th | David Morton, Ph.D. Professor of Engish, Amhearst College | Poetry | |
| April 11th | Charles P. Wilber State Forester | State Parks | |
| May 8th | Carlton Palmer, Ph.D. | The Joy of Pictures | |
| October 10th | Charles H. Browne Princeton | The History and Science of Cooking | |
| November 14th | Hugh Sellon | The British Empire and the Modern World | |
| December 12th | Leroy Wilkes, M.D. Executive Officer, Medical Society of New Jersey | The Problem of Socialized Medicine | |
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| 1939 | |||
| January 9th | Miller D. Steever, Ph.D. Professor of Law and Government, Lafayette College | Review of the Current Pulitzer Prize Book "The Life of Andrew Jackson" | |
| February 13th | David Irwin | Lone Journey from Nome, Alaska to the Hudson Bay | |
| March 13th | Malcolm G. Buchanan Vice Chancellor of New Jersey | What the Law Means to the Layman | |
| April 10th | Eugene Lora Clerk of the Court of Pardons of New Jersey | Procedures of the Court of Pardons | |
| May 8th | Albert H. Gilmer Professor of Grammatics, Lafayette College | Lafayette, the Man | |
| October 10th | Samuel Guy Inman, Ph.D. | The Social and Economic Condition of the Latin American Countries | |
| November 13th | Cleveland P. Grant | Wild Bird Life | |
| December 11th | George Madison Priest, Ph.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Princeton University | Germany of Today | |
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| 1940 | |||
| January 8th | Frank Palmer United States Housing Authority | Federal Housing | |
| February 12th | Norbert Considine Honorary Consul in Philadelphia for Finland | Finland Faces Russia | |
| March 11th | Henry B. Kummel, Ph.D. Former Director, New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development | Result of Recent Soundings of the Ocean Floor Off New Jersey | |
| April 8th | Captain Robert Dawson Chief Pilot, United Air Lines | The Development of Modern Air Transportation | |
| May 13th | Arthur D. Healey Member, House of Representatives from Massachusetts | Committee Report to the House of Representatives on the National Labor Relations Board | |
| October 14th | Gill Robb Wilson, D.D. Director of Aviation, State of New Jersey | The Present State of Aviation in America | |
| November 18th | S. D. Paige Engineer, The Bell Telephone Company | Stepping Off Into Space | |
| December 9th | G. P. Bronisch, LL.D. Executive Vice President, Loyal Americans of German Descent | Is There Another Germany? | |
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| 1941 | |||
| January 13th | Adelbert K. Potts, Ph.D. Geography Department, New Jersey State Teachers College | The Significance of New Zealand in the Present World Situation | |
| February 10th | James R. Gordon | Greece and the Drama of Democracy | |
| March 10th | Virgil Kauffman, Ph.D. President, Aero Service Corporation | Aerial Mapping | |
| April 14th | Theodore Leslie Shear, Ph.D Director, Princeton Excavations in the Agora at Athens | American Discoveries in Ancient Athens | |
| May 12th | J. Duncan Spaeth, Ph.D. Professor of English, Princeton University | A Pre-War Trip to Finland | |
| October 6th | Albert H. Gilmer Professor of Grammatics, Lafayette College | An American Looks at Mexico | |
| November 3rd | Willard F. McDonald Special Assistant to Chief, United States Weather Bureau | Weatherwise and Otherwise | |
| December 1st | Wilbur H. York, M.D. Chairman, Department of Health and Physical Education, Princeton University | Health Work Among University Students | |
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| 1942 | |||
| January 5th | George M. Krall Science Department, Trenton High School | A Year in Hawaii | |
| February 2nd | William A. Wetzel, Ph.D. Principal, Trenton High School | Teaching Religion in Public Schools or a Course in Human Relations | |
| March 2nd | Honorable J. Parnell Thomas Member, House of Representatives | Is Our War Program Being Endangered? | |
| April 6th | Lewis W. Link Symposium Member | The Research Groups at Princeton | |
| May 4th | Phillip K. Kitti, Ph.D. | The Arab and Moslem World and its Relation to the Present Conflict | |
| October 6th | John N. Brooks Symposium Member | A Facet of New Jersey History - Potable Water Supply | |
| November 2nd | William A. Hughes New Hope, PA | Experiences as a Test and Ferry Pilot | |
| December 7th | Ensign Thomas Gorman | The Naval Training School at Princeton University | |
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| 1943 | |||
| January 4th | Douglas Newton Forman, M.D. New Jersey State Hospital | Background of the Present Political Struggle in India | |
| February 1st | Hubert N. Alyea, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University | Man-Made Military Molecules | |
| March 1st | Captain Ralph C. Parker, USN Commandant, Naval Training School at Princeton | Up-To-Date Events in Alaska | |
| April 12th | John Goette | China's Place in the Future | |
| May 17th | Carl Van Doren | Benjamin Franklin Founds the American Philosophical Society | |
| October 4th | H. T. Liu | Post-War Problems in China With Particular Reference to Labor | |
| November 1st | Douglas M. MacNeil | Juvenile Delinquency | |
| December 6th | Giles Playfair Malayan Broadcasting Corporation | The Last Days of Singapore | |
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| 1944 | |||
| January 3rd | Edward M. Kemmerer, Ph.D Professor of Economics and Finance, Princeton University | Inflation | |
| February 7th | J. W. Crosby Thiokol Corporation | Synthetic Rubber and Some of its Problems | |
| March 6th | Rev. Robert Johnston McMullin Acting President, Hangchow University, Shanghai | The Chinese-Japanese Situation | |
| April 3rd | William H. Martin, Ph.D. Dean, New Jersey Agriculture College | The Food Outlook | |
| May 8th | William Mather Lewis, Ph.D. President, Lafayette College | Pan-American Friendship - The Test of Democracy | |
| October 2nd | Fritz Kunz Port Chester, NY | Problems of Freedom in a Modern World | |
| November 6th | Dana P. Vaughan Symposium Member | Some Call It Art | |
| December 4th | Fortieth Anniversary Program | ||
| Howard L. Hughes Librarian, Trenton Free Public Library | History of the Symposium for the Past Forty Years | ||
| George N. J. Sommer, M.D. Fellow, American College of Surgeons | Medical Progress During the Past Forty Years | ||
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