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Guide to the Wesleyan Parleys Collection,
1924 - 1966
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Guide to the Wesleyan Parleys Collection, 1924 -
1966
Special Collections &
Archives
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, USA
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Descriptive Summary
Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan
University
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
Wesleyan Parleys Collection, 1924 - 1966
1000-159
Material in English
3
1, plus 17 scrapbooks
For current information on the location of these materials,
please consult Special Collections & Archives staff.
Wesleyan held an annual conference
featuring scholars from around the country discussing some of the day's most
controversial and important topics, including labor, crime, race, marriage, and
foreign policy. The tradition of Wesleyan Parleys began in 1924 and lasted until
about the early 1960s.
The Wesleyan Parleys Collection consists of seventeen
scrapbooks, each devoted to a particular year's parley, and some additional material
including programs and clippings. The scrapbooks include correspondence, financial
information, publicity, photographs, and sometimes the text of speeches made at the
parleys. Some years are not represented in the collection.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for Official University records is held by Wesleyan University; all
other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their
descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wesleyan Parleys Collection, Collection #1000-159,
Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT,
USA.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred prior to 1998.
Processing Information
Processed by Kate Levy, October 2008
Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, November 2008
Historical Note
The Parley Committee of 1930 described the Wesleyan Parley as follows: This parley is offered to the friends, guests and students
of Wesleyan with the basic assumption that we as students have no prerogative to
be utterly carefree or completely cloistered from the stress and flux of affairs
'off-campus.' We believe that without scorning campus interests a student may
wisely concern himself with the interwoven political and economic forces that
have given his people prosperity - and in turn have given him his Alma
Mater.
In a day when our government is groping through new and
bewildering mazes, it seems no more than decently sporting that we students
grapple these problems…Though in some campus circles this is treason, we
cordially invite you to make the most of it.
Wesleyan parleys were arranged by the Parley Committee of the College Body (the
student government) with secretarial assistance from the Christian Association. The
Parley Committee generally consisted of four to ten students, along with faculty
help until 1930. The annual conferences featured scholars from around the country
discussing some of the day's most controversial and important topics, including
labor, crime, race, marriage, and foreign policy. The tradition of Wesleyan Parleys
began in 1924 and lasted until about the early 1960s.
Chronology List
Items marked with an asterisk (*) have accompanying scrapbooks.
1924-1925
College Life and Society
1925-1926
American College Education
1926-1927
American College Education
1927-1928
Symposium on Religion
1928-1929
Parley on War
1929-1930
*American Government and Business
1930-1931
*Parley on Crime
1931-1932
*Parley on Disarmament
1932-1933
*Parley on Marriage
1933-1934
*Parley on Race Relations
1934-1935
*Parley on Political Philosophies
1935-1936
*Parley on Labor Relations
1936-1937
*Parley on Marriage
1937-1938
*Parley on Higher Education in a Democracy
1938-1939
Parley on Inter-fraternity Relations (preliminary College Body
Parley)
1938-1939
*Parley on American Foreign Policy
1939-1940
*Parley on the Political Issues in the Coming Election
1940-1941
*Parley on Marriage
1941-1942
*Parley on the Part of College Youth in the Post-War World
1946-1947
*Parley on Marriage
1947-1948
*Parley on Labor-Management Relations
1948-1949
*Parley on the United States and World Affairs
1949-1950
*Parley on Civil Liberties and American Minorities
1950-1951
Parley on Communism in a Democratic World
1952-1953
The Future of American Conservatism
1955-1956
India Today
1956-1957
The New Middle East
1958-1959
War and Peace in the Space Age
1959-1960
Parley on Social Responsibility in Labor Relations
1959-1960
The Face of American Morality
1960-1961
The South in Search of Itself
1961-1962
Government Secrecy in a Free Society
1962-1963
The Future of American Labor
1963-1964
Humor in Politics
1964-1965
Modern Dance, Music, and Theater
1965-1966
Future of the Civil Rights Movement
Collection Overview
The collection consists of seventeen scrapbooks, each devoted to a particular parley,
and some additional material including programs and clippings. The scrapbooks
include correspondence, financial information, publicity, photographs, and sometimes
the text of speeches made at the parleys. Some years are not represented in the
collection.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online
catalogs.
Wesleyan University (Middletown,
Conn.)
Wesleyan University (Middletown,
Conn.)--History.
Wesleyan University (Middletown,
Conn.)--Students.
Social problems--United
States--History--20th century--Congresses.
United States--Social conditions--20th
century--Congresses.
Crime--United States--Congresses.
Race relations --Congresses.
International
relations--Congresses.
Marriage --United States
--Congresses.
Labor--United States--Congresses.
Scrapbooks.
Related Material
Additional information about the Wesleyan University Parleys can be found in articles
published in the Wesleyan
Argus (student newspaper)
and Hartford Courant around the time the parleys took
place.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Scrapbooks
When the full text of a speech is included, this is indicated.
1
Parley on American Government and Business, February 28-March 1,
1930
Volume includes correspondence, publicity, invitations, and expenses.
Speakers and Topics
Oswald Garrison Villard, Government and Business in the Court of Domestic
Relations
Myron W. Watkins, Grounds and
Limits of Public Control of Business
Morris Hillquit, Growing
Social and Business Functions of
Government
Thomas J. Doherty, Lobbying
and the Tariff
Peter H. Odegard, Pressure
Politics
Raymond Leslie Buell, Imperialism: Our Invisible Empire
John T. Flynn, Can Business
Rule Itself?
2
Parley on Crime, December 5-December 6, 1930
Volume includes preliminary planning materials, correspondence,
invitations, expenses, and clippings.
Speakers and Topics
Dr. William Healy, Psychological and Social Origins of
Crime
Everett W. Duvall, Juvenile
Delinquency
George W. Kirchwey, Crime and
Penal Reform
Includes full text of speech.
Jack Black, Crime and the
Criminal
Clarence Darrow, Crime and
the Criminal Court
3
Parley on Disarmament, December 4-December 5, 1931
Volume includes correspondence, publicity, invitations, lecture bureau
pamphlets, and expenses. The volume also contains a student poll on
disarmament and a photograph of Rear Admiral Sims.
Speakers and Topics
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, U.S.N., Disarmament - The Limitation of
Armaments and Freedom of the Seas
Frank H. Simonds, Obstacles
of Disarmament
Harry W. Laidler, class of 1907, Roads to World
Peace
Frederick J. Libby, Disarmament and National Security
Rear Admiral Charles L. Hussey, U.S.N. Disarmament
President Harry A. Garfield, The Future of Disarmament
4
Parley on Marriage, December 8-December 9, 1932
Volume includes Parley regulations, publicity, clippings, correspondence,
expenses, and lecture bureau pamphlets.
Speakers and Topics
Gladys H. Groves, The
Feminine Side of It
Professor Erdman Harris, The
Masculine Side of It
Father John M. Cooper, The
Church and Modern Marriage Problems
Dr. William B. Terhune, Mental Adjustments in Marital Life
Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin, class of 1909, Youth Prepares for
Marriage
Margaret Sanger, The Case for
Birth Control
Dr. Clarence G. Campbell, The
Modern Approach to Marriage
5
Parley on Race Relations, February 8-February 9, 1934
Volume includes clippings, correspondence, invitations, and lecture
bureau pamphlets.
Speakers and Topics
Dr. F.E. Auhagen, Principals
of the National Socialist Program
Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman, Hitlerism and the Jew
Dr. Walter F. White, The
Negro and American Civilization
Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., Chinese Aspects of the Manchukuo
Situation
Dr. Roy Hidemichi Akagi, Japanese Aspects of the Manchukuo
Situation
Kirby Page, The Problem of
Race Relations
6
Parley on Political Philosophies, December 5-December 7,
1934
Volume includes correspondence, planning and arrangement information,
invitations, and lecture bureau pamphlets. It also includes the platform
of the Socialist Labor Party of America.
Speakers and Topics
Professor Francis Coker and Dr. Bruno Roselli, Fascism
Max Eastman, Communism
Horace M. Kallen, The
Individual and the Modern State
Mr. V.F. Calverton, Culture
and Communism
H. Gordon Hayes, The New
Deal
Professor Nathan Isaacs, Free
Private Enterprise
Professor H.U. Faulkner and Col. Henry Breckenridge,
Individualistic
Democracy
Mr. Norman Thomas, Socialism
Mr. Scott Nearing, Communism
and America
Mr. Seward Collins, Fascism
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Individualistic Democracy
Hon. Charles M. Bakewell, Social Responsibility under Individualistic
Democracy
Dr. Harry Laidler, Social
Responsibility under Socialism
7
Parley on Labor Relations, December 4-December 6,
1935
Volume includes correspondence, lecture bureaus, and invitations. The
text of many of the speeches is included. Also includes photos of
Granville Hicks, Charles P. Howard, Gilbert H. Montague, and David
Lasser.
Speakers and Topics
Labor and the Law
with Ainslee Slodden, presiding. Featuring Arthur Garfield Hays,
Liberal Lawyer and Henry Clifton, Conservative
Lawyer
Includes text of Hay's speech.
The Place of White Collar and
Professional Workers with James L. McConaughy, Jr.,
presiding. Featuring John Goss, Industrialist and Granville
Hicks, Economist and Author
Includes text of speeches by both Goss and Hicks.
The Issue of Company Unions,
Craft Unions, and Industrial Unions with J. Kemper
Burton, presiding. Featuring John P. Frey, Craft Unionist;
Charles P. Howard, Industrial Unionist; and David Saposs,
Company Unionist
Includes text of speeches by Frey, Howard, and Saposs.
The Industrial Disputes
Act with Richard Harfst, presiding. Featuring
Gilbert Montague, Conservative opposed to the act; Abraham J.
Muste, Radical opposed to the act; and David Saposs
Includes text of speeches by Montague, Muste, and Saposs.
The Issue of a Labor
Party with Burton C. Hallowell, presiding. Featuring
J.P. Frey, representing A.F. of L. position and Robert Minor,
Radical in favor of a labor party
Includes text of speeches by both Frey and Minor.
The Issue of Social Insurance
and Relief with Kenneth R. Andrews, presiding.
Featuring Rulon Williamson, Conservative and David Lasser,
Socialist
Includes text of speech by Lasser.
The Place of Labor under a
Socialized and under a Capitalistic State with
Herman Muehsam, presiding. Featuring Scott Nearing, Radical and
Professor O. G. Saxon, Conservative
Includes text of speeches by both Nearing and Saxon.
8
Parley on Marriage, December 3-December 4, 1936
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, invitations, programs,
finances, and lecture bureau pamphlets. Also includes two photos of
Katharine H. (Mrs. Thomas N.) Hepburn and a photo of Norman E. Himes,
and pamphlets of varying opinions on birth control.
Speakers and Topics
V. F. Calverton, The Crisis
in Contemporary Marriage
Professor Hornell Hart, Science and Sexual Ethics
Includes text of Hart's speech.
Oliver M. Butterfield, Preparation for Marriage
Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, State Responsibility in the Matter of Marriage and Family
Life
Includes text of Goldstein's speech.
Mrs. Grace Loucks Elliott, Marriage and Maturity
Dr. Ernest R. Groves, The
Masculine Side of It
Mrs. Ernest R. Groves, The
Feminine Side of It
Dr. S. Ralph Harlow, How to
Be Happy tho Married in this Generation
Includes text of Harlow's speech.
Dr. Harry Bone, Some
Contributions of Clinical Psychology to Problems of Normal
Marriage
Professor Albert P. Van Dusen, Essentials of Marital
Stability
Mrs. Katharine H. Hepburn, The Case for Birth Control
Professor Norman E. Himes, Family Limitation
9
Parley on Higher Education in a Democracy, March 10-March 11,
1938
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, invitations, finances, and
cancelled checks.
Speakers and Topics
Henry M. Wriston and George S. Counts, The Function of the Privately Endowed
College in a Democracy
Thomas J. Dodd, Christian Gauss, and Eduard C. Lindeman,
Education and the
State
Includes text of Dodd's speech.
Robert Lamb, Intellectual
Freedom
Herbert E. Hawkes, Generalization Requirements
Molly Yard, David Dellinger, and Jerome Davis, New Organizations in
Education
Olin F. McCormick and Julius Hochman, What Faces the College-Trained Man
after College in Business and Labor
Charles Hubbard Judd and William Allan Neilson, Confusion in an American
Education
10
Parley on American Foreign Policy, March 8-March 10,
1939
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, financial information,
lists of guests, lecture bureau pamphlets, and a Chairman of the Parley
committee report. The following photographs are also included: one photo
each of Carleton Beals, Edwin Borchard, Nathaniel Peffer, George N.
Shuster, Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright; two photos of Smedley D. Butler;
three photos of Gerald P. Nye; a photo of O.E. Stone, George N. Shuster,
and Nathaniel Peffer; and a photo of five unknown men.
Speakers and Topics
A.A. Berle, Jr. and Edwin Borchard, A Community of Nations in the Western
Hemisphere
Includes text of speech by Berle.
Gerald P. Nye and Louise Leonard Wright, Collective Security versus
Isolation
Carleton Beals and Smedley D. Butler, American Foreign Policy in a
Post-Munich World
Frederick L. Schuman and Raymond Leslie Buell, American Foreign Policy and the British
Empire
George Fielding Eliot, The
Ramparts We Watch
George Hubbard Blakeslee, The
United States in the Far East
Hubert Herring, The Two
Americas
Nathaniel Peffer and George N. Shuster, America Looks to the East and to the
West
11
Parley on the Political Issues in the Coming Election, March 8-9,
1940
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, invitations, finances, and
lecture bureau pamphlets. Also includes photographs and biographies of
the speakers and abstracts of their addresses and discussions.
Speakers and Topics
Vito Marcantonio and Merwin K. Hart, The Labor, Business, and Government
Triangle
Includes text of speeches by Marcantoni and Hart.
Clarence A. Hathaway, The
Communists' Future Political Objectives
Includes text of Hathaway's speech.
Harry W. Laidler, The
Socialists' Future Political Objectives
Includes text of Laidler's speech.
Len Decaux and John J. Egan, The Outlook of Organized Labor
Includes text of speeches by Decaux and Egan.
Harold Brayman, A Political
Observer Views Washington
Ernest K. Lindley, The
Capital Looks at the Nation
Saul Forbes Rae, The Public
Opinion Polls in the Coming Election
Includes text of Rae's speech.
Edward L. Bernays, The Public
Opinion Polls: A Critical Analysis
Includes text Bernays's speech.
Senator Claude Pepper and Congressman Dewey Short, The Democratic and Republican Outlooks
for 1940
Includes text of speeches by Pepper and Short.
Max Lerner, The American Way
in the Future
Includes text of Lerner's speech.
12
Parley on Marriage, February 27-28, 1941
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, programs, finances, guest
lists, and lecture bureau pamphlets.
Speakers and Topics
Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Challenge of Marriage
Mrs. Katherine Hepburn, In
Defense of Birth Control
Professor Joseph Kirk Folsolm, The Crisis of Contemporary
Marriage
Professor Joseph Kirk Folsolm, The Crisis of Contemporary
Marriage
Amram Scheinfeld, Comic
Strips and Chromosomes
Includes abstract of Scheinfeld's speech.
Dr. L. Foster Wood, Marriage
and the Churches
Dr. Ira Wile, Mental
Adjustments in Marital Life
Judge John Warren Hill, Predicting Success or Failure in
Marriage
Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, A
Physician Views the Problems of Marriage
Margaret Mead, Marriage
Patterns, Primitive and Modern
Harry Elmer Barnes, Marriage
in a Changing Society
13
Parley on the Part of College Youth in the Post-War World, March
1-2, 1942
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, finances, guests and
accommodation information, and lecture bureau pamphlets.
Speakers and Topics
Professor Carl Joachim Friedrich, The Challenge of the Post-War World for
College Students
Sinclair Lewis, The Problems
of Reconstruction
Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, The
Problem of Maintaining Full Employment after the
War
Ralph E. Flanders, Design for
Living in America
Raymond Moley, Imagine
Independence in a Totalitarian World
14
Parley on Marriage, March 13-14, 1947
Volume includes correspondence, news releases, programs, finances, guest
lists, and lecture bureau pamphlets.
Speakers and Topics
Dr. Benjamin Simon, All
Marriages are Made in Heaven
Dr. Abraham Stone, Modern
Trends in Planned Parenthood
Dr. John H. Mariano, Tendencies of Modern Marriages
Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, The Physician Views the Problems of
Marriage
Dr. S. Ralph Harlow, Religion's Place in Marriage
Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, Marriage and the Family in a Changing
Society
Father George B. Ford, Marriage as an Enduring Institution
15
Parley on Labor-Management Relations, March 11-March 12,
1948
Volume includes correspondence, biographical sketches and pictures, news
releases, and a photo of Senator Flanders, Senator Ives, and J. Raymond
Walsh
Speakers and Topics
Men Versus Machines,
with Professor Robert R. R. Brooks, moderator. Featuring Boris
Shiskin (labor) and Travis Whitney (management)
The Villain of High Prices -
Wages or Profits? with Senator Ralph Flanders,
moderator. Featuring Tilford Dudley (labor) and Dr. Alfred P.
Haake (management)
Henry Laidler, Ethics in
Labor- Management Relations
J. Raymond Walsh, Labor in
Politics
John Driscoll, Fundamentals
of a Strike
The Pro and Con of the
Taft-Hartley Bill, with Senator Irving M. Ives,
moderator. Featuring Lee Pressman (labor) and Virgil B. Day
(management)
16
Parley on the United States and World Affairs, March 10-March 11,
1949
Volume includes programs, suggestions, correspondence, news releases,
finances, information about guests and accommodations, and a series of
14 photos taken during the Parley event.
Speakers and Topics
Norman Thomas and Edward C. Acheson, US in World Economic
Readjustment
Arthur Hummel and David Gordon, US and China
Chitoshi Yanaga, US and the
Future Role of Japan
Frederick C. Barghoorn, US
and Russia
Oscar Schachter and Thomas C. P. Martin, Beyond Nationalism
17
Parley on Civil Liberties and American Minorities, March 23-March
24, 1950
Volume includes a 1950 Parley History, correspondence with speakers,
publicity, correspondence with delegates, and a financial report.
Speakers and Topics
The Honorable Chester Bowles and Mr. Robert T. Collins,
What is the Position of American
Minorities?
Includes text of speech by Collins.
Mr. Alexander F. Miller, The
South
Professor Willmoore Kendall, Minorities and Communism
Dean Eugene S. Wilson, Discrimination in Colleges and
Universities
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Discrimination in the Economic
Sphere
Mr. Patrick Malin and Professor Roscoe C. Martin, How Will the Position of American
Minorities Change?
Series 2: Additional Material
Programs
1
1
1924-1932
1
2
1934-1939
1
3
1940-1942, 1947, 1949-1951, 1956, 1959, 1960
1
4
Parley on Communism clippings, March 1951
1
5
Miscellaneous parley materials, 1950-1966