Dr. Emil Gustav Hirsch, of Chicago, will preach in Appleton Chapel next Sunday evening. Tuesday evening, at 7.45, he will deliver, in the Fogg Lecture Room, under the auspices of the Harvard Semitic Conference, a public lecture on "The Talmud." After the lecture, the Semitic Conference will hold a reception for him in Brooks House.
Dr. Hirsch is professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy in the University of Chicago, and is one of the foremost Semitic scholars of the United States. He is a rabbi in the Hebrew Church. Dr. Hirsch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1872. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Leipsic in 1876. He has edited the "Zeitgeist," of Milwaukee, the "Reformer" of New York, and the "Reform Advocate" of Chicago.
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