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In the Graduate Schools

Ten Talks to be Given Under Auspices of Graduate Schools Committee

Ten lecture courses in religion, five the first half year and five the second, will be given under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Committee of the Philips Brooks House Association in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, starting November 16.

The group of talks is given annually by universally known men from different colleges and universities in the United States. Although designed primarily for graduate students, the lectures are open to all members of the university who are interested in religious topics.

Lectures for the first-half year are asked under the title "Present Day Trends in Religion." The first one is to be given on November 16 by Kirsopp Lake. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and is entitled "The Religion and Educated Men." On Sunday, November 23. S. L. Joshi, Professor of Comparative Religion, Dartmouth College, will speak on "Gandhi as a Prophet of the New Era."

The rest of the talks for the year are Religion and Social Change," to be given on November 30 by H. F. Ward, Professor of Christian Ethics. Union Theological Seminary, New York: "Soviets and Religion", which will be given by B. C. Hopper, Representative of the institute of Current World Affairs in Russia from 1926 to 1929, on December 7: and on December 14 Reverend F. N. Buchman will lecture on "The Oxford Group."

The following men will speak during the second half-year on topics to be announced later: Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School; A. L. Kinsolving, Rector, Trinity Church of Boston: W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Harvard Business School; Dr. R. C. Cabot '89, professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics; and K. F. Mather, professor of Geology.

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