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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...
...even internationally known figure in this field. In addition to holding positions such as chairman of the executive committee of the 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...
...this year there is another reason for better rates, which excluding all other considerations should determine the commission to grant them. That is the war need of the government. Daniel Willard, the Chairman of Council of National Defense, in sounding the warning against permitting the railroads to approach exhaustion, pointed out the terrible consequences that had happened in France where such a condition had been allowed to take place. If the carriers of the nation decrease in efficiency, the whole industrial system will be tied up and the war work of the government jeopardized. From fairness to the railroads...
Professor William Ernest Hocking '01 will deliver the second lecture of the University War Series in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. His topic will be, "The War Zone and What Lies Behind It." It will be based on Professor Hocking's experiences of last summer, when he visited the English and French fronts...
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...