1930s

1/35 Notes for a Biography of John Jay Chapman

3/35 Some Thoughts About Modern Art

5/35 Managed Currency

10/35 Court Reform

11/35 A Crisis in Architecture

2/36 Working for the national Resources Committee

3/36 Methods of Mass Murder

4/36 Personal Traits of William James

10/37 New Books for Old: Micro-photography for Books

12/37 What is Theology Doing?

11/38 My experience with Secondary Education

12/38 The Common Herd

1/39 Painting of a Portrait

2/39 The Last Leaf

3/39 Million on Relief: Is this a Permanent Condition?

5/39 The Story of the Trinity Apse

11/39 What is Social Science?

1940s

1/40 Labor Law Today

3/40 Computing the Age of the Universe

4/40 Pro BonoPublico

10/40 The Making of a Jesuit

11/40 America’s Leading Brains on Punch Cards

12/40 Art and Social Welfare

2/41 Technical Progress in Aviation

3/41 The Beaver Has Wings

5/41 The Lure of a Detective Story

10/41 Minutiae in Medicine: Viruses and Vitamins

11/41 Did Gutenberg Print the Gutenberg Bible?

12/41 Major Chords: Visits to the Bach Bethlehem Festivals

1/42 A Quiet Centennial – The Treaty of Nanking

2/42 What is Wrong With Propaganda?

4/42 Mexican Stars and Politics

5/42 Law in a Democracy

1/43 Adventures in Light and Color

2/43 Two Hundred Billions of National Debt

3/43 Nine Young Men

4/43 Earthquakes and Flowers

5/43 The Fun and Artfulness of Painting

10/43 The New Chemo-therapy

11/43 The Psychology of Genius

12/43 The Newspaper Columnist

1/44 The Detective Among the Pictures

2/44 Aeronautical Research

4/44 What Have We Done With the Past?

5/44 Mysterious Islands

12/44 How Canada is Paying for Her War

1/45 The Number Pool Racket

3/45 Between Wars

5/45 War-time Paris, 1945

10/4 Political and Economic Issues

11/45 The Reparations Problem

12/45 An Adventure in Advertising

1/46 Russian Vignettes

2/46 A Government of Laws, Not Men

3/46 Pearl Harbor versus Washington

5/46 Lord Keynes: the Most Influential Economist of the Time

11/46 A Pilgrimage of Goodwill

12/46 Why is an Archeologist?

1/47 Civilization, Cleanliness, Climate, and Syphilis

2/47 Woodrow Wilson in ‘47

4/47 Palestine

10/47 A Side-line View of the Taft-Hartley Bill

11/47 What Goes On in the Painter’s Mind

12/47 Some Impressions of Europe Today

1/48 The Old Testament

2/48 Art and Revolution

3/48 Some Statues of Boston

4/48 How do you Read?

5/48 Crime

10/48 Britain Revisited

11/48 Immigrants’ Boston: Vattemare to DiFerrari

12/46 Goings on in the Planet

2/49 Personal Impressions of Economic Recovery in Europe

3/48 The Right of The People to Know

1/49 Eastern Impressions of the West

4/49 The Work of a Trust Company

5/49 The Tribulations of the M.T. A.

10/49 The First Fifty Years of Symphony Hall

11/49 Reminiscences of an Archeologist

12/49 The National Science Foundation

1950s

1/50 Free Enterprise and the Welfare State

2/50 History of our Knowledge of the Heart and its Diseases

3/50 Land Use in Central America

4/50 Was There a Battle of Lexington?

5/50 Knocking Around Europe With a Color Camera

10/50 Psychology and Pre-natal Behavior

11/50 Adolescent Israel

1/51 Loyalty and the Law

2/51 What is Implied in the Airplane?

4/51 The Ideal Citizen

5/51 Congressional Immunity and Privileges

1/52 Cultural Relativism and Universal Values

2/52 Do We Have a Foreign Policy?

3/52 Unsuccessful Careers

4/52 Painting an Abstraction

5/52 A Cambridge Massachusetts University

11/52 Contributions to a History of the Examiner Club

12/52 The Smithsonian Institute: Its Place in the World

2/54 American Industry and the Good Life

3/54 The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Community Support

4/54 Higher Education and Current Confusion

10/54 Adventures in Cardiology

1/53 With the Boston Symphony in Europe

2/53 Dialogues of Whitehead

3/53 Wine and Wisdom

5/53 Progress and Problems in American Archeology

11/53 Architectural Trends in America

12/53 The New England Farmer

1/54 The Tribulations of the Northern Cotton and Rayon Industry

11/54 Time Out of Mind

12/54 Harvard College Faces the Future

1/55 Forestry in New England (Conflicts with next entry)

1/55 The Gentle Art of Defamation (Repeated in 5/80?)

2/55 Reminiscences and Theories of Painting

3/55 Republicans and Sinners

5/55 The Composition of the New Testament

10/55 Adventures with Books

12/55 The Midwifery of Books

3/56 The Bulge and the Budget

4/56 When Wright was Wrong

10/56 Gods and Galaxies

11/56 The Growing and Selling of Apples

1/57 A Roving Eye in Moscow

2/57 Dostoyevsky vs. Dow Jones

5/57 Biochemical Heresies in an Atomic Age

1/58 The Atlantic Neptune and Collecting

11/58 Extra Sensory Perception

1/59 An Ounce of Prevention

5/59 The Quest for Criminal Man

6/59 Illustrated Report on Africa

11/59 Recent Changes in the European Novel

12/59 Life History of a River

1960s

1/60 The Cigarette – Lung Cancer Dilemma

3/60 Demonstration of a Phrase of Donne

5/60 African Education and US Policy

4/60 Government Under Law and “Socialist Legality”

11/60 The Intellectual versus the City: A Chapter in the History of American Thought

1/61The Search for Personality

3/61 What Machiavelli never Told

4/61 Homage to New England

5/61 The Election, the Image, and the Church

10/61 World Law and the United Nations

12/61 The Boston Trustee

1/62 The State of Music

4/62 Viruses and Cancer

5/62 Ancient Rome and Modern America: A Reconsideration

10/62 The Examiner Club Enters its 100th Year

12/62 Three Types of Hypothesis, or, How to Make a Scientific Revolution

1/63 The American Physician Abroad

2/63 The Two Kashmirs

3/63 A Biologist Takes a naïve Look at Man

4/63 The Huron Feast of the Dead

5/63 The Examiner Club

11/63 A reading of Poems from The Breaking of the Day

3/64 Light and Communications at the Visual Arts Center

4/64 The Six Eyes of Man

5/64 Through the Glass - Brightly

10/64 Kenyatta, Nyrere, and Paul Brooks

11/64 The two Vaticans

12/2/64 Hamlet’s Strange Business (Same month as next entry)

12/7/64 The Assassination and the Press

1/65 Wart Hogs, Wildebeest and Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.

3/65 After the Kindergarten, What?

4/65 “One Takes Power With One Kind of Man; One Rules with Another”

5/65 Hitler Enters History

10/65 Brownian Motion, White Noise, and the Dow Jones Stock Averages

11/65 Writing for Children

12/65 A Forward look at the New England Economy

10/66 Thoughts on the Training of Secondary School Teachers, Especially in Latin

12/66 Gull Behavior and Misbehavior

2/67 An Industrialist Looks at the Universities

3/67 Einstein, Mach, and the Fight Over the “Real World”

5/67 Tales of Tension in Tokyo

11/67 In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Problems of a Biographer

12/67 The Urban Crisis: How Can We Face It?

1/68 Two Early Jesuits

3/68 How to Raze a City with a Sonnet

4/68 Scientific Results from the Space Program

11/68 The New Future of the New Economics

1968-69

10-7-68 Charles Wyzanski, “Tu dis partout du mal de moi…”

11-4-68 Paul Samuelson, The new future of the new economics

12-2-68 Francis Lally, The bitter pill

1-6-69 Charles Stearns, The ages of man

2-3-69 Robert Manning, Newspaper days

3-4-69 Paul Freund, The right of privacy

4-5-69 Franklin Ford, An Italian medal from a Minnesota campsite

Average attendance: 15.9

1969-70

10-6-69 Joseph Barth, America’s real religion

11-3-69 Sinclair Hitchings, Boston’s fragile renaissance

12-1-69 Frank Coffin, Three blind mice, or see how they rub

1-4-70 Augustin Parker, Concordia

2-2-70 Augustus Loring, How not to get a television station

3-2-70 William Drury, Jr., Conservation: Old and new

4-6-70 Franklin Lindsay, Space photography

5-4-70 Mason Hammond, The city in the ancient world

Average attendance: 11.1

1970-71

10-5-70 Edwin Land, Science, the humanity, the victim of the humanities

11-2-70 Paul White, Sudden death

12-7-70 John Enders, Viruses in hiding

1-4-71 Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson and the Silent Spring

2-1-71 John Burchard, Bernini is dead?

3-1-71 Thomas Cabot, Reflections of an Isolaphile

4-5-71 Gardner Cox, Post-object adt: Whence and Whither?

5-3-71 Gerald Holton, On understanding scientific genius

Average attendance: 13.3

1971-72

10-4-71 Bailey Aldrich, Courtroom violence

11-1-71 Henry Bragdon, Teaching: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

12-6-71 Paul White, The emerging China of 1971

1-3-72 Fred Whipple, On a clear night….

2-7-72 Paul Samuelson, Gold

3-6-72 Francis Lally, A once burning issue

4-3-72 Charles Stearns, Plates

5-1-72 Milton Katz, Electric power and the environment: who decides and how?

Average attendance: 12.3

1972-73

10-3-72 Paul Freund, New parts and new starts

11-6-72 Howard Johnson, The financial crisis in education revisited

12-4-72 Mason Hammond, I Tatti and the American Academy in Rome

1-8-73 Carl Scovel, When the Church revisited Hitler

2-5-73 Peter Davison, Things half remembered

3-5-73 Roy Lamson, The pack of Autolycus

4-2-73 Edward Logue, Withdrawing now in order to jump higher the next time

5-7-73 Charles Wyzanski, The Eve of St. Gisela: Holmes and Hand vs. Aldrich and Coffin

Average attendance: 15.5

1973-74

10-1-73 David McCord, A Lembie in Limbo

11-5-73 Frank Coffin, A continuing quest for principle

12-3-73 Charles Kindleberger, 1929 Revisited

1-7-74 Sinclair Hitchings, London and Boston, 1775

2-4-74 Augustine Parker, Boston’s new public library

3-4-74 Paul Bator, Some polemical reflections on crime and punishment

4-1-74 Paul Brooks, Embattled farmers

5-6-74 Thomas Cabot, Better medical care at less cost

Average attendance: 13.8

1974-75

10-7-74 Franklin Lindsay, The resistance movement in Yugoslavia during World War II

11-4-74 Fred Whipple, The outlook

12-2-74 Gardner Cox, Reflections

1-6-75 Augustus Loring, Des Barres revisited

2-5-75 Gerald Holton, Sub-electrons

3-3-75 Rodney Armstrong, A new look at a Old Girl

4-7-75 Paul Samuelson, Recession: made in Washington

5-5-75 Henry Bragdon, Slavery and the American Revolution

Average attendance: 18.5

1975-76

10-6-75 Edwin Land, The pursuit of insecurity

11-3-75 Carl Scovel , An argument for the uselessness of religion

12-1-75 Barney Frank, A relatively honest man’s view of corruption

1-5-76 Carrol Williams, Sex and the single insect 

2-2-76 Mason Hammond, Thoughts on education

3-1-76 Bailey Aldrich, A look at obscenity

4-5-76 Dan Wakefield, Serial fiction from Dickens to daytime television

5-3-76 Milton Katz, Government under law: Incidents real and imaginary – Hitler, James I, Abraham Lincoln

Average attendance: 17

1976-77

10-4-76 Paul Freund, The right to be let alone

11-1-76 Peter Chermayeff, Places for beasts: Some animals, buildings, and exhibits

12-6-76 Rollin Hadley, Correspondence of a museum director

1-3-77 Emily Vermeule, Lamia, some thoughts on ancient pets and petting

2-7-77 Charles Terry, On teaching subversive literature

3-7-77 Roy Lamson, Popular music of the 20’s

4-4-77 Felicia Kaplan, Libelettres

5-2-77 Sinclair Hitchings, Whiskey in a wooden keg

Average attendance: 16.3

1977-78

10-3-77 Peter Davison, Do poets grow up?

11-7-77 David McCord, On the dedication f a theater

12-5-77 Charles Kindleberger, Manias, bubbles, crashes, and panics

1-9-78 Craola Eisenberg, College as an aphrodisiac, with some thoughts on higher education

2-6-78 CANCELLED in the face of the storm

3-6-78 Paul Bator, The grammar of constitutional law

4-3-78 Charles Stearns, Whither, whether, climate?

5-1-78 Howard Johnson, The Museum of Fine Arts and its future

Average attendance: 17.3

1978-79

10-78 Frank Coffin, Some treasures from our liitle tin trunk

11-78 Fred Whipple, Do you feel alone?

12-78 Paul Brooks, Yosemite: the seeing eye and the written word

1-79 Henry Bragdon, Woodrow and Jimmy: preparation, policy, performance

2-79 Franklin Lindsay, Intelligence: the good and the bad

3-79 Augustus Loring, Should we trust the trustees?

4-79 Rodney Armstrong, Public records, public rights

5-79 Barney Frank, The legislator’s credo: waste not, win not

Average attendance: 18

1979-80

10-1-79 CANCELLED, in deference to the Papal visit

11-5-79 Charles Wyman, Political endorsements

12-3-79 Carrol Williams, Biological clocks

1-7-80 Glen Bowersock, The glory that was Greece

2-4-80 Carl Scovel, Wicked preachers

3-3-80 Charles Terry, On writing well

4-7-80 Augustin Parker, Indians on the law path

5-5-80 Bailey Aldrich, The gentle art of defamation

Average attendance: 19

1980-81

10-6-80: Doris Kearns, The modern president –imperial or impotent?

11-3-80: Milton Katz, The critical sector in foreign policy – the home front

12-1-80: Florence Ladd, Words for Washington

1-5-81: David Baltimore, Understanding and exploiting DNA

2-2-81: Thomas Cabot, Philanthropy

3-2-81: Carl Scovel, The King James, the young Turks, and the next Bible

4-6-81: Paul Samuelson, What to do?

5-4-81: Emily Vermeule, Greeks and barbarians at the symposium

Average attendance: 17

1981-82

10-5-81: Peter Davison, One of the dangerous trades

11-2-81: Peter Chermayeff, An amusement park

12-7-81: Felicia Kaplan, Lingua fracas, or watch your language

1-4-82: Peter Gomes, Britain in the eye of the beholder: Chaos and Continuity

2-1-82: Carola Eisenberg, The difference between male and female MDs: Vive La Difference!

3-1-82: Owen Gingerich, The Galileo affair in contemporary perspective

4-5-82: Dan Wakefield, Under the apple tree: “The Home Front” in fiction

5-3-82: Carroll Williams, Silk

Average attendance: 17

1982-83

10-4-82: Gerald Holton, Why Einstein chose the USA

11-1-82: Anne Wyman, New wind for old sails

12-6-82: Frank Coffin, Reverend Mr. Hale returns to The Examiner

1-3-83: Roy Lamson, Chaucer’s Yonge Folk

2-7-82: Paul Freund, Informal discussion of Justice J. C. McReynolds

3-7-82 Carola Eisenberg, Terror in El Salvador

4-4-83: Frank Lindsay, Capabilities and limitations of arms verification

5-2-83: Fred Whipple, Cometary

Average attendance: 16+

1983-84

10-3-83: Milton Katz, Conventional Weapon Deterrents in Europe

11-7-83: Carl Scovel, Hiking and Other Nonsense

12-5-83: Rodney Armstrong, Collecting Collectors

1-9-84: Paul Freund, Going Off Gold

2-6-84: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

3-5-84: Robert Reich, A Tale of Three Bailouts

4-2-84: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Journey to Nicaragua and El Salvador

5-7-84: Owen Gingerich, The Great Copernicus Chase; or, On Publishing or Perishing in the Renaissance

1984-85

10-1-84: Peter Gomes, The Etiquette of Ethnicity

11-5-84: Emily Vermeule, Dear Homer, What Really Happened at Troy?

12-3-84: Charles Terry, The Business of Poetry

1-7-85: Mary Ellen Avery, Premature infants: An Introduction to a New Group of Human Beings

2-4-85: Sinclair Hitchings, A Bag of Books for a Bevy of Bookies

3-4-85: Peter Davison, The Art of Losing

4-1-85: Paul Bator, Court and Castle in the Reign of King Ronald

5-6-85: Alfred Ajami, Observations on the Carbuncle: An Astigmatic View of Gemology

1985-86

10-7-85: Lester Thurow, Japan as a Time Bomb in the World Economy

11-4-85: Florence Ladd, Black Africans in the United States

12-2-85: David Maybury-Lewis, The attraction of opposites

1-6-86: Francis Lally, The Slavic Pope

2-3-86: David Baltimore, Viruses cause social disease

3-3-86: Allan Cormack, An Odyssey of imaging

4-7-86: Dan Wakefield, The importance of Place to a writer

5-5-86: Carroll Williams, Musings on the origin and evolution of life

1986-87

10-6-86: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Art of Biography: the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys

11-3-86: Owen Gingerich, Will the World End with a Bang or a Whimper?

12-1-86: Anne Wyman, New Wind in Old Sails

1-5-87: Frank Coffin, The Rocky Road to Ratification: the Massachusetts Pothole

2-2-87: Charles Stearns, Time Out of Mind

3-2-87 Carl Scovel, The King James, the Young Turks and the Next Bible

4-6-87: Carola Eisenberg, Fear of AIDS: Perception and Reality

5-4-87: Milton Katz, The Rise and Fall of Collective Security in the Americas: The Road to Nicaragua

1992-93

10-5-92: Fred Wiseman, Near Death

11-2-92: Carola Eisenberg, Psyching Out Your Psychiatrist

12-7-92: James Carroll, The Priest Next Door: Fragment of a Memoir

1-4-93: Christopher Lydon, Notes from the House of the Dead: Writing in Prison

2-1-93: Donald Shambroom, Breughel, Bosch, and Me

3-1-93: Chester Pierce, Racism

4-5-93: Richard Eder, Literature as Mangy Dog: It Follows, It Knows

5-3-93: Spouse Night