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Ian McHarg (1972-1973)
Oct 25, 1972
“Design with Nature” Ian McHarg was an expert on town planning. Born in Scotland in 1920, he was a proponent of regional planning using natural systems. After his work with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, he moved to the United States to attend the Harvard [...]
Raymond Moriyama (1972-1973)
Oct 24, 1972
“Growth, Temporal and Spiritual” Raymond Moriyama is a well-known Canadian architect. He was born in Vancouver in 1929 and a graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill. Moriyama’s childhood experience as a Japanese Canadian internee during the Second World War was [...]
Garrett Hardin (1972-1973)
Oct 23, 1972
“Population: The Solution is in Our Minds” Garrett Hardin was Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a prominent environmentalist. He specialized in human population dynamics, evolution and the history of science. Hardin authored the [...]
Harry Street (1969-1970)
Mar 25, 1970
“Privacy and the Law” Harry Street was a professor of English Law at the University of Manchester and a jurist. He was previously a teacher at the Harvard Law School. He authored “Freedom, the Individual and the Law.” Much of his work focused on civil liberties and tort [...]
Michael Swann (1969-1970)
Nov 05, 1969
“The Scientist’s Uneasy Conscience” Michael Swann was principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, where he was also a professor of natural history. Swann was a biologist and zoologist whose research addressed cell division and fertilization. At the time [...]
Claude Bissell (1968-1969)
Jan 30, 1969
“Academic Freedom -The Student Version” Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto. After completing graduate work in English and Philosophy, he returned to University College at the University of Toronto in 1941, leaving temporarily the next year to join [...]
John Eccles (1968-1969)
Oct 16, 1968
“The Necessity of Freedom for the Flowering of Science” Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, and professor at a number of universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including the University of Buffalo. Eccles was the 1963 [...]
J. A. Leith (1968-1969)
Oct 02, 1968
“The French Revolution of 1968” J. A. Leith was professor and chairman of the Queen’s History Department. He was the author of Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 and editor of Symbols in Life and Art. In his [...]
Leon Dion (1967-1968)
Feb 14, 1968
“Political Participation in Liberal Democracies” Leon Dion was Professor of Political Science at Laval University from 1948-1989. He was best known for studying educational reform and French-English relations. His book Le bill 60 et la société québécoise (1967) studied the [...]
Douglas V. LePan (1966-1967)
Feb 16, 1967
“Responsibility and Revolt” Douglas V. LePan was a professor of literature and the principal of University College at the University of Toronto. He was also a poet, novelist, and diplomat. He studied at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, and Oxford University. [...]