In his poem "The Prospector," Kipling has brought forth the romance and thrill connected with the life of "him who entereth into the waste places of the world." It is curious, though natural, how much the same color of feeling attaches itself to pioneers in the fields of thought and society.

Such a pioneer was Robert Grosseteste born in 1175 of humble parents, who was to become before the end of his long life bishop of Lincoln, the first mathematician and physicist of his age, and one of the earliest of English statesmen.

Grosseteste was a man of supreme courage violent temper and prone to indiscretion. Yet he was one of the strongest of the reformers within the Church itself, pointing out fearlessly wherein its defects lay even to the extent of laving before Pore Innocent IV and the cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the church to the malignant influence of the Curia, and violently opposing Rome when I came into conflict with the national clergy.

Yet it was not only as an ecclesiastic statesman that he is worthy of memory, but also for his ventures into the fields of mathematics and natural science where he anticipated many of the ideas to which Roger Bacon later gave a wider currency.

Grosseteste and the Oxford School to which he belonged will form the subject of a lecture by Professor Gilson at 9 o'clock this morning in Emerson F

Other lectures of interest are.

9 O'clock

"Does Education Train the Mind." Professor Holmes, Laurence 3. Education A.

"The Political Organization of the German Empire before the War." Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall, Government I.

10 O'clock

"Charles Brockden Brown". Professor Muroock, Harvard 2, English 33.

"The Paintings of Leonardo da Vincl." Professor Edgell. Robinson Hall. Fine Arta 5h.