Speeches
Wriston, H. M. (1911, June). "A Plea for Conservation." Speech presented at Wesleyan University Commencement, Middletown, Connecticut. Printed in "Commencement. Henry Merritt Wriston Wins Rich Prize. Degrees Conferred." The Wesleyan Argus, June 22, 1911.
Wriston, H. M. (1924, December 10) Washington's Foreign Policy as a Guide for Today. Speech presented at Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Printed by Direction of the Council, June 1925.
Wriston, H. M. (1925, November 24) Inaugural Address Speech presented at The Inauguration of Henry Merritt Wriston as Ninth President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Wriston, H. M. (1926, May 15) What is An Education? Commencement address presented to Seniors of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin. Printed in Lawrence College Bulletin Vol. XXVI, No. 10 (1926).
Wriston, H. M. (1927) A Liberal Education Commencement address presented to Seniors of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin. Printed in Lawrence College Bulletin Vol. XXVII, No. 10 (1927).
Wriston, H. M. (1928, June 11) The Major Premise Commencement address presented to Seniors at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin. Printed in Lawrence College Bulletin (1928).
Wriston, H. M. (April 10, 1931) Physical Education and Athletics Address presented at the Eleventh Annual Convention of The Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Madison, Wisconsin.
Wriston, H. M. (1933, November 2) The National Survey of Secondary Education Address presented at the Wisconsin Association of Secondary School Principles. Printed in Lawrence College Bulletin.
Wriston, H. M. (1934, January) "The Liberal Arts College" Proceedings of the Education Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Wriston, H. M. (1935, November 18) Lawrence vs Colleges X, Y, and Z Address presented at dinner for A.A.U.P in celebration of HMW's 10th anniversary as President of Lawrence College, Neenah, Wisconsin.
Wriston, H. M. (1936, February 8) The Integrity of the College Presidential Address at Association of American Colleges, New York, New York. Printed in The Bulletin of the Association of American Colleges Vol. XXII, No. 1 (March 1936): 183-193.
Wriston, H. M. (1936, June 5) Economics vs. Politics Address presented at the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the American Paper and Pulp Association, the executive officers of member mills of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, and invited guests at the North Shore Golf Club, Appleton, Wisconsin. Printed by Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Wriston, H. M. (1939, May 3) Education for the Defense of Democracy Address presented at the Academy of Political Science at its Semi-annual meeting on "The Preservation of Democracy--America's Preparedness" New York, New York. Published by The Academy of Political Science (1939).
Wriston, H. M. (1939, April 21) Liberal Learning Address presented at the Centennial Celebration, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Printed Bulletin of the Association of American Colleges Vol. XXV, No. 3 (November 1939): 365-369.
Wriston, H. M. (1939) "Education for Democracy" Address presented at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Address (in slightly amended form) also presented at the American Unitarian Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 1940. Printed in Amherst Alumni Council News, Supplement 1 to Vol. XIII, No. 2 (December 1939).
Wriston, H. M. "Cultural Self-Reliance and the Democratic Process" Address presented at the Associated Alumni Meeting, 172nd Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Printed Bulletin of Brown University (September 1940).
Wriston, H. M. (1940, May 13) "Problems of Higher Education" Address presented at the Education Section of the Eighth American Scientific Congress, Washington, D.C. Printed School and Society Vol. 52, No. 1339 (August 1940): 113-119.
Wriston, H. M. (1940, April 11) "American Policy: Positive or Negative?" Address presented at the Academy of Political Science meeting on "Economic Nationalism, Trade Barriers and the War", New York, New York. Published by The Academy of Political Science Vol. XIX, No. 1 (1940): 58-67.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
Wriston, H. M. (1943, June 2) "How to Achieve the Inevitable" Address at 175th Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
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.
Wriston, H. M. (1944, May 29) "What is Man?" Address presented at Commencement Exercises, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Burlington, Vermont.
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.
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.
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).
Wriston, H. M. (1949, January 19) "Political Strategy for Business" Address presented at 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Industries of Cleveland, Ohio.
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).
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.
Wriston, H. M. (1950, June 6) "Education for Democracy" Address presented at Providence College Commencement, Providence, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1950) "The Road to Independence" Address presented at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
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.
Wriston, H. M. (1951, May 24) "How to Live Together and Like it" Address presented at the National Board of Fire Underwriters, New York, New York. Also presented at the Plant Management Conference of the National Metal Trades Association, Mayflower Hotel, Plymouth, Massachusetts, June 18, 1951.
Wriston, H. M. (1951, February 21) "Tensions" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Printed in U.S. Naval War College Information Service for Officers, Vol. III, No. 9 (May 1951): 21-40.
Wriston, H. M. (1951, February 22) "George Washington" Chapel Speech presented at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1951, September 10) "The Validity of Limited Objectives" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Printed in U.S. Naval War College Information Service for Officers, Vol. IV, No. 3 (November 1951).
Wriston, H. M. (1952, December) "'Policy' in Foreign Affairs" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Providence, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1952, March 5) "The Role of Higher Education in Furthering the Security of the Nation" Address presented at United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Printed in The Sesquicentennial of the United States Military Academy, An account of the Observance West Point, New York, January-June 1952): 107-117.
Wriston, H. M. (1952, September 10) "A Comprehensive Review of Anglo-American Relations" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1952, April 26) "American Leadership" Address presented at Chancellor's Dinner for Faculty Members Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Wriston, H. M. (1952-1954) "Basic Factors Underlying our National Strategy" A series of lectures presented at Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia and U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1952, June 18) "American Leadership" Address presented at 196th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Printed in The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (1952).
Wriston, H. M. (1953, October 23) "The Ideology of the West" Address presented at U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Published in Naval War College Review, Vol. VII, No. 1 (September 1954): 1-26.
Wriston, H. M. (1953) "American Freedom and Education" Address presented at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Printed in Maxwell, Allen, ed. The Present Danger: Four Essays on American Freedom, 61-99. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.
Wriston, H. M. "Henry Wriston Speaks to the Foreign Service on Personnel Problems" A summary of the Informal Comments of Chairman Henry M. Wriston, of the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, at a Luncheon Meeting of the Foreign Service Association at the Officers Club, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1954.
Wriston, H. M. (1954, May 13) "Daniel" Address presented at Final Chapel of the Academic Year 1953-54, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1954, May 16) "Let Us Have Peace" Address presented at Centennial Convocation, Rhode Island College of Education, Providence, Rhode Island. Published in Vital Speeches of the Day (June 15, 1954): 542-544.
Wriston, H. M. (1954, May 20) "The Institute of Paper Chemistry: 25th Anniversary" Address presented at Eighteenth Executives Conference, North Shore Country Club. Printed in Fundamental Science for Americans.
Wriston, H. M. (1955, June 8) "Political Factors in National Strategy" Address presented at Conference on Global Strategy, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Wriston, H. M. (1955, March 11) "The Liberal Arts at Mid-Century" Address presented to Faculty of the University of Alabama, University, Alabama. Printed in Extension News Bulletin, University of Alabama, Vol. 12, No. 10 (April 1955).
Wriston, H. M. (1955, May 6) "Perspective on Security" Address presented at Conference on "Overseas Information Services: A New Career" at New York University, New York, New York.
Wriston, H. M. "Wriston and Brown" (Text). Narrated by Dan Morrissey. Edited by Jay barry and Dan Morrissey. Sponsored by the Associated Alumni of Brown University. Limited Edition RCA Victor Recording, 1956.
Wriston, H. M. Wriston speaking: A selection of addresses. Providence: Brown University Press, 1957.
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Wriston, H. M. (1960, March 22) "Rugged Individualism" Address presented as The Anne Talbot Cole Lecture, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Printed by The Brunswick Publishing Co., Brunswick, Maine.
Wriston, H. M. (1961, October 27) "Validity of the Educational Process" Address presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Educational Conference of The Educational Records Bureau and The American Council on Education. Printed in Representative American Speeches, 1961-1962, H. W. Wilson, Co., New York, New York, 1962.
Wriston, H. M. (1961, November 14) "The United States and Tomorrow's World" Address presented at Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
Wriston, H. M. (1964, March 23) "Education and World Affairs" Address presented at Education and World Affairs Conference, Greenbrier, West Virginia.
Wriston, H. M. (1964, April 6) "Address" Address presented on the occasion of his election as Honorary President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Printed by The Overbrook Press, Stamford, Connecticut.
Wriston, H. M. (1966, October 26) "One World -- A Paradox" Address presented on his retirement from The American Assembly, New York, New York.
Wriston, H. M. (1967, March 2-5) "Expanding Ideas in a Shrinking World" Address presented at the Eighteenth Conference, Bennett College, Millbrook, New York.