Political Science DepartmentRecords 1950-1967 1950-1964

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Political Science DepartmentRecords 1950-1967 1950-1964

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The Political Science Department Recordsconsist primarily of materials documenting the annual Institute on WorldAffairs held at Oregon State College in the 1950s. Political sciencecourses have been taught at Oregon State since the 1860s.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Political Science.

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Courses in political science, political economy, and government have been taught at Oregon State University since its founding in the 1860s. In 1908, political science courses were taught within the School of Commerce and a Department of Political Science was established within the School of Commerce in the 1910s. In the early 1930s, with the establishment of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, political science became a unit of the Lower Division and offered a limited number of courses...

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...