Professor William Howard Taft, of Yale University, will be the guest of The Speakers' Club at a dinner next Thursday, which will open the activities of the club for the term. These will include, beside the regular fortnightly dinners for informal discussion, and meetings on alternate weeks addressed by prominent men, a contest among the members for a prize of fifty dollars offered by the Massachusetts Peace Society for the best speech on the subject of International Peace, several readings by Professor I. L. Winter '86 and others, and the annual contest in extemporaneous speaking, which will come shortly before the spring recess.

Faculty Members on Current Topics.

The organization will hold also a series of meetings, open to all members of the College, to increase interest in the economic, political, and sociological problems of the day. At each of these meetings some member of the Faculty, whose work has brought him into contact with the subject for discussion, will give a review of the current events touching on it. There will follow a general informal discussion, during which the reviewer of the evening will answer any questions related to the subject. This plan has met with the approval of the Faculty, which will give it their co-operation.

This year, as last, Forums will be held under the auspices of the Speakers' Club for the discussion of undergraduate problems.