Rev. H. D. A. Major, Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, England, will give the William Belden Noble Lectures at the University this December. The first lecture will be held in Emerson Hall at 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening, December 1.

"English Modernism--Its Origin, Aims, and Methods" will be the theme of the six lectures on Tuesday and Friday evenings during the first three weeks of December, which will be open to the public free of charge.

Dr. Major, founder of the "Modern Churchman" fifteen years ago and since then its editor, will treat his subject under the following heads; the Larger Modernism: English Modernism and its Immediate Predecessors: the Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes which convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist; Modernism and New Truth; Modernist; Reconstruction: Modernism and Miracles: Modernism and Jesus Christ: Modernism and the Creeds: Modernism and the Future.

Dr. Major is a graduate of the University of New Zealand and of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an External Examiner in the University of London and examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham. He has served also as examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford and has been preacher at Oxford and Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books including "The Gospel of Freedom", and "Reminiscences of Jesus", and has contributed articles to many magazines. He is editor of the Modern Churchman's Library.