Countless speakers from countless pulpits have made a platitude of the statement that the man who has had the greatest influence over the lives of Western peoples has been neigther emperor nov statesman, author or scientist, but an humble carpenter from Galilee. The story of the development of the institution founded by Christ is a vital one to students of philosophy, literature, politics and art, for all of them bear to some extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given by Professor Perry at 10 o'clock this morning on "The Rise of Christianity" has a universality of appeal that few subjects possess.
The other choices for today and tomorrow are:
TODAY
9 o'clock
"Elegies", Professor Rollins. Emerson A.
"Chuang Tzu, the expounder of Lao Tzu's Taoism", Professor Porter, Sever 25.
10 o'clock
"Corneille", Professor Wright, Sever 35.
11 o'clock
"The Ereetheum and the Temple of Wingless Victory", Professor Chase, Fogg Lecture Room.
12 o'clock
"Verrochio", Professor Post, small Fogg lecture room.
3 o'clock
"Medieval ideas about the Drama", Professor Rand, Sever 14.
TOMORROW
10 o'clock
"James Fennimore Cooper", Professor Murdock, Harvard 2.
"Post-Shakespearean Drama", Professor Murray, Sever 11.
"Haydn and Mozart", Professor Spaiding, Music Building.
12 o'clock
"The Secretariat of the League of Nations", Mr. Wynne, Harvard 3.
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