NOBLE LECTURES

Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, D.D., h.'97, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, will deliver the first of the William Belden Noble lectures for this year in the Fogg Lecture Room tonight at 8 o'clock. Under the general subject of the series, "The Attitude of Christ toward Foreign Races and Religions," Dr. Hall will speak this evening on "Jesus Christ and World Sympathy."

The remaining lectures of the series, which is open to the public will be delivered at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on February 27 and March 5, 6, 12, and 13. The general subject, "The Attitude of Christ toward Foreign Races and Religions," will be treated in the several lectures as follows:

February 27--"The Larger Meaning of the Incarnation."

March 5--"The Essential Unity of the Human Race."

March 6--"Temperamental Contrasts between East and West."

March 12--"Religious Insight and Experience Outside of Christianity."

March 13--"Christian Missions and the Modern World."

Dr. Hall is a graduate of the Union Theological Seminary, of which he is now president, has studied at Edinburgh and London, and holds an honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard, Yale, and New York Universities. He is an experienced lecturer, and has delivered the Carew lectures at the Hartford Theological Seminary, and, by appointment from Chicago University, the Barrows lectures, which are delivered annually in the leading cities of India, Ceylon, and Japan. Last year he was appointed Cole lecturer to Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn.

The fund for the Noble lectures was presented to the University in 1898 by Mrs. William Belden Noble, in memory of her husband an Episcopal clergyman, who graduated from Harvard in 1885, and in memory of Phillips Brooks '55, with whom Mr. Noble was in close sympathy.