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Dr. Harold Dwight Lasswell, political scientist, has been named the SALMON LECTURER for 1947 by the Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of The New York Academy of Medicine. His lectures, The Dynamics of Power and Personality, will be delivered the evenings of November 12, 13, and 14 in the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103d Street, New York City. Members of the medical profession and their friends are invited to attend.
Dr. Lasswell, who is Professor of Law at Yale University, has been a consultant of the U. S. Department of State since 1945, concerned with the psychological approach to problems arising in the execution of American foreign policy, and in the building of new international organizations. In 1939 he was appointed Director of War Communications Research, first organized for collecting data on world trends, and training personnel in new methods of research in propaganda and public opinion. Dr. Lasswell, a native of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has done graduate work at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris and Berlin. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Society.
Members of the Salmon Committee, which sponsors the lectures, are: Chairman, Dr. C. Charles Burlingame, Dr. Adolf Meyer, Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton, Dr. Edwin G. Zabriskie, Dr. Edward A. Strecker, Dr. William Healy, with Dr. George Bachr, the president, and Dr. Howard R. Craig, director, of the New York Academy of Medicine.