GIVES DUDLEIAN LECTURE

Last night at 8 o'clock in Emerson D, Professor J. B. Pratt '99, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, delivered the annual Dudlerian Lecture. His subject was "Natural Religion--Consciousness and its Implications". Professor Pratt confined himself to the question, "What is man?" He demonstrated that personality can not be analyzed by chemistry or physics, and showed that the ability to look ahead and imagine leads us to believe in the existence of something in the mind, absolutely independent of the human body.

These lectures were started by Chief Justice Paul Dudley about 50 years ago, their primary object being to combat Catholicism. Since that time, however, they have been broadened to include the more liberal aspects of religion.