Hu Shih, professor of the History of Chinese Thought and former Chinese ambassador to the United States, will lecture on "The Chinese Problem" in the Lowell House Junior Common Room tomorrow night from 7:30 to 9 o'clock under the sponsorship of the Oriental Club of Harvard.
Recent events in China and the Far East, notably the recall of General Joseph Still well and the trip to China by Donald Nelson, have caused much discussion about real situations in the land of our ally. Few people in this country know more about this topic than Professor Hu. and his talk will be based on a firm foundation of knowledge by experience.
Professor Hu was a full professor of Chinese Philosophy at the National University of Peeping when he left to come to this country. He was present at the Harvard Tercentenary in 1936 and was awarded an honorary degree. Last month he started a series of lectures here in Chinese 11, a new course dealing with the history of Chinese thought, which will be given only this year.
The war has brought to Harvard an unusually large number of Chinese students who have banded together to form the Oriental Club.
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