Professors in economics, biology, geology, and modern languages were leading speakers at academic convocations during the Christmas recess.
In Chicago at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association and 19 other economic societies, three University professors spoke on mobilization problems, and one of them, John H. Williams, Ropes Professor of Political Economy, was elected A.E.A. president.
Williams and J. K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, sketched possible patterns for monetary and fiscal controls. Dan Throop Smith, professor of Finance at the Business School, warned that high excess profits taxes could prove a barrier to entry and expansion.
Botanist Dr. Karl Sax '18 warned the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cleveland last December 26 that the world could not be developed properly by simultaneously putting into effect President Truman's Four- Point program.
The Association's new president is Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, who reminded the members that the "obstacles to international understanding do not reside in geology."
Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, spoke on the plays of Lope de Vega at the Modern Languages Association's meeting in New York's Hotel Statler December 28.
Other Harvard speakers included Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English; Louis F. Solano '24, associate professor of Romance Languages; Morris Hallo, teaching fellow in Slavic; Charles S. Singleton, professor of Romance Languages; and Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English
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