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WNYC announcer introduces the inauguration of Harry N. Wright as President of the City College of New York.

Hosted by Dr. Ordway Tead and Professor Nelson P. Mead. ...

Professor Ephraim Cross, from the Department of Romantic Languages, City College, discusses language and the war. 

He calls the language of force the only language our enemies will understand. Cross discusses the role of language, once believed to be a divine gift of the gods, though unlike our other faculties, not a born trait. Language, he says, is a two edged tool - it can be used for truth or for a lie. He notes our ability to analyze and distinguish between truth and lies, from propaganda that is "socially refreshing" from that which confines our welfare.

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Professor Daniel T. O'Connel opens his talk with some general remarks about war.

He goes on to speak specifically about the role of geologists in the war effort. ...

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Robert I. Wolff discusses the significance of astronomy in the war and in the post-war years.

Wolff discusses the worldwide impact of the total war, and how astronomy ...

Dr. Nelson Mead introduces Harry J. Carman, the final speaker in the Our Stake in the War series. He is a professor of History at Columbia University. Carman's speech is titled "The War and the American Standard of Living." 

Carman discusses the American way of life, as established by the founding fathers, and improved by the past half centuries of technological advances.

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WNYC announcer introduces Gill of the Department of Mathematics at City College, who talks about mathematics in the war.

Gill starts by talking about Archimedes to illustrate the ...

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Murphy, chairman of the Department of Psychology at City College, talks about fear: "We live in a world of danger." People must be provided a constructive task, in daily life and ...

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WNYC announcer introduces program and Allen, Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at City College, who talks about Engineering in the Armed Forces. Allan talks about the ways engineering influences ...

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WNYC announcer calls this the ninth in a series of lectures arranged by the Civilian Defense Council of City College, then introduces Tead, the chairman of the Board of Higher Education. ...

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Benjamin Harrow, professor of chemistry at City College introduces the day's speaker Dr. C. W. Cutler, Junior Chief of Emergency Medical Services in Manhattan.

Dr. Cutler points out ...

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Gustav F. Schultz, Chairman of the Department of Public Speaking at City College introduces the day's speaker, Dr. Henry Neumann, leader of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, and author of ...

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Kessler, of the Biology Department at City College, discusses "Biology in the War: War diseases and their control."

To protect our soldiers against diseases, vaccination is applied as ...

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Schuster, the President of Hunter College, addresses the topic "Immigrants All, Americans All."

Who is an American? The first settlers ever to come to these shores. Those settlers ...

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WNYC announcer introduces program and Goldsmith, of the Department of Physics at City College, who talks about "Atomic Physics in War."

Our success in this war depends more ...

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WNYC announcer introduces program and Clinchy, President of the National Council of Christians and Jews, who talks on Freedom of Religion. Richard B. Morris, Director of Civilian Defense at City College, ...

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Initial program in The Role of Science in War, part of the City College defense series. This program appeared on Saturdays at 10:45 AM.

Professor Reston Stevenson of ...

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The final broadcast of the winter series.

Dr. Prager of City College discusses drugs in war. Begins with a short history of medicine focusing on naturally-occurring drugs. Modern ...

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Mead discusses American democracy and the struggle to maintain the democratic ideals in the face of the current struggle with "European and Asian dictators." Mead speaks at length about the heritage ...

Dr. Alan Frome of the Psychology Department of City College reads Murphy's lecture on morale. 

One of the reasons we will win the war is that the morale of our enemies will crack. Superiority of morale is traceable in three things: we have been attacked; open and fearless way in which democracy permits difficulties to be faced and worked out; free institutions encourage technical research procedures to discover weaknesses in morale. Shorter work hours would increase productivity; the number of hours worked ought to be determined by scientific research.

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Professor A. X. Schmidt of the Chemical Engineering Department of City College discusses "Nylon and the War Effort."

Schmidt discusses silk - a necessary material in the war ...