Mr. Murray's Lectures Begin Today

The first of six lectures on "Greek Traditional Poetry" by Mr. Gilbert Murray, M. A., LL.D., formerly professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow, which have been arranged by the Classical Department through the generosity of Mr. Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. The special subject for tonight will be The Aegean Kingdoms; the Migrations; and the Greek Polis." The remaining lectures will be delivered on the evenings of May 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10, in the Fogg Lecture Room. They will all be open to the public.

Mr. Murray was graduated from St. John's College, Oxford, receiving his M.A. degree from there in 1892. The University of Glasgow honored him with the degree of LL.D. in 1900. He is the author of a "History of Ancient Greek Literature" and a number of articles on subjects from Greek Literature in various journals. He is also the editor of several critical and explanatory editions of plays of Euripides, and of verse translations of other classical plays.