First Noble Lecture Tonight.

Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., of Columbus, Ohio, will deliver the first of the William Belden Noble Lectures for 1902-1903, in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight. The general theme of the lectures this year is "Witnesses to the Light," each of the lectures having for its subject a noted character, who, by excellence in his particular line of work, advanced the thought and culture of his time. The subject of the lecture tonight will be "Dante Alighieri, the Poet." The lecture will be open to the public.