Dr. C. Delisle Burns, D.Lit. (Stevenson Lecturer in Citizenship, University of Glasgow):
' Do new Customs make new People ? '
(From Glasgow)
'Is youth in revolt? Is authority undermined? Have women reached equality with men?' These are the questions which are to be discussed in Part II of the 'Education and Leisure' section of the 'Changing World' symposium, which begins this evening. It is difficult to see what is really happening, because everybody suffers from old pigeon-holes in his mind into which he tries to cram new experiences. Immense changes in social standards and customs have taken place in the last thirty years. The discussion of these changes must not be merely a contest of vague opinions, it must be based on a study of the material facts which have caused social attitudes to change. This is what Dr. Delisle Burns is going to do. Dr. Burns has been an Extension Lecturer for Oxford, Cambridge and London Universities, lectured in America, and in Logic and Social Philosophy at London University. During the war he worked in the Ministry of Reconstruction, and soon after with the Labour Office at the League of Nations and in the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Labour. He is the author of several books on international and other social problems.