Through the generosity of Mr. F. G. Thomson; '97, of Philadelphia, the Department of Government has been enabled to secure a number of specialists experienced in various branches of city administration to give some regular lectures in Government 17, a course on municipal government. Each will give lectures connected with his particular branch of municipal administration.

The remaining lectures for the present year are as follows: Hon. H. B. F. McFarland, President of the Board of Commissioners, Washington, D. C.; Hon. Nathan Matthews, Jr., '75, ex-mayor of Boston; Mr. Samuel Whinery, Chief Consulting Engineer of New York City: Hon. David A. Eills '94, Chairman of the Boston School Committee: Mr. M. N. Baker, Chairman of the Board of Health, Moniclair, N. J.; Mr. Owen Roberts, of the District Attorney's Office. Philadelphin: and Hon. Robert W. De Forrest, former chairman of the New York Tenement House Commission.