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- "Problems of Today", Moorfield Storey, Godkin Lectures of 1920,
- "Theory and Practice in Politics", Robert Moses, Godkin Lectures of 1939
- "Ethics in Government", Paul Douglas, Godkin Lectures of 1952
- "Uses of the University", Clark Kerr, Godkin Lectures of 1963
- "New Dimensions of Political Economy", Walter Heller, Godkin Lectures of 1966
- "Family and Nation", Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Godkin Lectures of 1985