Henry Merritt Wriston (1889-1978)

1941 - 1950

Wriston, H. M. Prepare for Peace!. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. "Can There be a Substantial Reduction in Non-Defense Expenditures of the Federal Government?" A National Radio Debate, as discussed by HMW and The Honorable T. V. Smith, Former Congressman-at-Large from Illinois, Moderator: Mr. Fred G. Clark. Discussion of the Text "Wake Up, America!", Over the Blue Network of The National Broadcasting Company, Sponsored and Released by the American Economic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. December 7, 1941.

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Wriston, H. M. (1941, September 30) "After the War, What?" Address presented at the tenth annual convention of the Controllers Institute of America, New York, New York. Highlights also published in Trained Men (May-June 1942).

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Wriston, H. M. (1941, December 17) "Unity for War and for Peace" Address presented at the Meeting of the Bond Club of New York, New York, New York.

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Wriston, H. M. "Faith in Democracy" Pathfinder, America's Oldest News Weekly. (June 21, 1941).

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Wriston, H. M. "The Worth of the Initiative: The Doctrine of Limited Liability One of Many Shortcomings in the Affairs of Nations; the Moral Initiative Vital to Maintenance of Democracy" The Technology Review Vol. XLIII, No. 5 (March 1941), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Wriston, H. M. (1941, December 4) "Wriston Assails Non-Defense Spending in an Address at New York State Emergency Rally Non-Defense Governmental Spending" Albany, New York.

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Wriston, H. M. (1941, September 24) "Character in Action" Address presented at Opening Convocation, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Printed in Bulletin of Brown University (October 1941): 3-12.

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Wriston, H. M. (1941, November 12) "Government Use of the Machine in War" Address presented at the Academy of Political Science Annual Meeting on "American Industry in a War of Machines," New York, New York. Published by Academy of Political Science (1942).

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Personal Correspondence, regarding New York Bond Club lecture, November 17, 1941 - June 3, 1943, H. M. Wriston, J. Taylor Foster, Ralph H. Bollard, William M. Chadbourne, H. J. Fuller, Drury W. Cooper, Frederick B. Wilcox.

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Wriston, H. M. Bases para la paz, la negociación de tratados. Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad, 1942.


Wriston, H. M. "Subsoil of Peace" The Hazen Pamphlets No. 6., Edward W. Hazen Foundation, Haddam, Connecticut. Previously printed in Library Quarterly: Louis Round Wilson: Papers in Recognition of a Distinguished Career in Librarianship, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (July 3, 1942): 752-761.

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Wriston, H. M. "Preface" to Wriston, Jennie Amelia Atcheson. A Pioneer's Odyssey. Menasha: Priv. Print [George Banta Pub. Co.], 1943.


Wriston, H. M. Challenge to Freedom. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1943.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Personal Correspondence, regarding "Educational Opinion in Wartime" letter, April 13, 1943, H. M. Wriston (Providence, Rhode Island), Morse A. Cartwright (New York, New York).

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Wriston, H. M. "Brown as a Fraternity College: Past, Present and Future" Brown Alumni Monthly (December 1943).

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Wriston, H. M. (1943, June 2) "How to Achieve the Inevitable" Address at 175th Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Wriston, H. M. "Chapter 1. Education in America Today" Greene, T. M. et. al., Liberal Education Re-Examined, The American Council of Learned Societies, Harper and Brothers, New York, New York and London (1943): 1-20.

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Wriston, H. M. "Free Enterprise" Second War Congress of American Industry, The National Association of Manufacturers (December 1943).

Used with permission by the National Association of Manufacturers.

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Wriston, H. M. Strategy of Peace. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1944.

Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Wriston, H. M. (1944, March 2) "The Functional Approach to Peace" Address presented at the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York, New York. Printed in Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Monthly Bulletin Vol. 35, No. 9 (March 1944): 456-472.

Used with permission by the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.

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Wriston, H. M. (1944, May 29) "What is Man?" Address presented at Commencement Exercises, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Burlington, Vermont.

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Wriston, H. M. "The Structure of Brown University" (First message from the Corporation of Brown University to the Alumni) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1946.

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Wriston, H. M. "Educational Housing" (Second message from the Corporation of Brown University to the Alumni) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1946.

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Wriston, H. M. "The University College" (Third message from the Corporation of Brown University to the Alumni) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1946.

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Wriston, H. M. "The Size of Brown University" (Fourth message from the Corporation of Brown University to the Alumni) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1946.

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Wriston, H. M. (1947, October 21) "Economic Democracy" Address presented at Better Business Bureau, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Also presented (1947, December 3) at The Tax Foundation, New York, New York.

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Wriston, H. M. (1948, September 24) "Charles Evans Hughes" Address presented Opening of the 185th year at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Printed by Akerman-Standard Press, Providence, Rhode Island, 1949.

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Wriston, H. M. (1948, November 4) "Fire Bell in the Night" Address presented at Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York, New York. Printed in Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1949).

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Wriston, H. M. (1949, January 19) "Political Strategy for Business" Address presented at 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Industries of Cleveland, Ohio.

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Wriston, H. M. (1949, November 4) "The College Graduate and Research" Address presented in Providence, Rhode Island. Printed in Proceedings of 1949 Patents and Research Seminars, National Association of Manufacturers, Economic Policy Division Series, No. 23 (March 1950).

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Wriston, H. M. (1950) "Providence Pilgrimage" Address presented at Convocation of the Baptist Meeting House, In Honor of The Northern Baptist Convention, Boston, Massachusetts. Printed by The Watchman-Examiner, A National Baptist Paper Vol. 38, No. 25 (June 22, 1950): 640-641.

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Wriston, H. M. (1950, June 6) "Education for Democracy" Address presented at Providence College Commencement, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Wriston, H. M. (1950) "The Road to Independence" Address presented at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Wriston, H. M. (1950, September 29) "The Outlook for the Independent College" Address presented at Sesquicentennial of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Printed in The Middlebury College News Letter: Sesquicentennial Report, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (January 1951): 30-35, 36.

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Wriston, H. M. "Which way Independence!" College and University Business, Vol. 9, No. 6 (December 1950): 19-22.

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