"A great problem is that of ridding the world of the kind of thought that is largely responsible for certain evil conditions," said Professor Manley O. Hudson, L. '10 in his address at the Foreign Students reception last evening in the ballroom of the Phillips Brooks House. "Such a condition," he continued, "is the constant menace to every man of being called from industrial occupations to arms to answer a call to settle some political quarrel. Most of the men in this room have seen students leave laboratories and study halls to go to the front to kill other men, many of whom were students searching for the same knowledge.

"A Damocles' sword of war is hanging over society, and no organizations more from its falling than the University. We should therefore welcome the intelligent, conscious effort of some of the peoples and nations of the world to eliminate war by means of a political organization.

"Events in the past summer have seen some progress in world peace thought In 1911 a situation arose which might have been solved by a conference, but the machinery for such a conference was lackine and war followed. In the summer of 1923 we beheld another association and another ultimately One party seemed determined to have its will Yet, after the conference, peace followed."

Then Professor Hudson went on to show how the exchange of students among the universities of the world is probably the greatest factor in bringing closer political and intellectual intercourse between the nations of the world of the need, of having Harvard men welcome the students from foreign countries.

Emilio Puerto '27 of Mexico played several piano selections after the speaking.