Ex-President William Howard Taft, Professor of Law at Yale University will address the members of the Speakers' Club and their guests this evening at 6.30 o'clock. The speech will be in connection with a banquet that is to be given at the clubhouse. Mr. Taft's subject will be "The Necessity of Increasing Civic interest Among Students and the Valuable Aid Which the Speakers' Club can Render in this Respect." In addition to the undergraduate and graduate members of the club there will be present a large number of guests including prominent members of the Faculty.

Tonight's dinner marks the opening of the activities of the Speakers' Club for the winter term. Mr. Taft's speech embodies in it the aim of the club, namely the encouragement of undergraduate interest in political, economical, and sociological questions of the day.