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John R. Mott, LL.D., who served with Elihu Root on the recent United States Commission to Russia which was sent abroad by President Wilson when we entered the war, will speak before the University in the New Lecture Hall on Thursday, November 15, promptly at 6.45 o'clock, his subject being "War Conditions in Russia and Europe." He will also present the work of the Y. M. C. A. in the prisoners' retention camps and in the Y. M. C. A. army huts erected throughout the battle fronts of Europe...
...Student, Volunteer Movement, and general secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., Dr. Mott has gained the reputation of a brilliant speaker on war topics. He has recently addressed Boston audiences on subjects connected with his recent visit to Russia, and has consented to speak in Cambridge for the especial benefit of students in the University...
These lectures will be given regularly every Wednesday at 8.15 o'clock by members of the faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in the warring countries, as well as by alumni and men outside the University who are qualified to speak on such subjects. This action has been prompted by the ignorance of many people in this country, and especially those in the University and the R. O. T. C. Dean Haskins clearly phrased this idea in his introduction of Lieutenant Morize, in the first of the lectures. "The least that...
...joint meeting of the University and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock, the Reverend W. Harris Crook will speak on "Socialism After the War." Members of the socialist clubs at Simmons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley, Tufts, and Boston Theological Seminary will be present. The purpose of the meeting will be to organize a greater Boston Intercollegiate Socialist Club...
...open to all members of the University, but not to the public. The speakers will be chosen in part from members of the Faculty who are acquainted with the conditions on the battle fronts in Europe, and in part from alumni and men outside the University who can speak with authority on such subjects...