COLLEGE CLUB SMOKERS

On January 29, Arthur D. Hill, Esq., of Boston, ex-district attorney for Suffolk county, spoke before the students. Mr. Hill was well received by the audience, which was deeply interested in his talk upon: "The College Man in Citizenship." Mr. Hill said that there was a large field today for college bred men in politics; that those now in politics were not, as a class, the kind of men that should control the government of the nation.

Professor William Lyon Phelps, of the department of English literature at Yale University, spoke on the evening of February 5 on the subject, "How to Read Books." Professor Phelps spoke in his informal way, which invariably meets with favor wherever he speaks. His subject dealt with the understanding of the arts—literature, music, and painting.

Samuel S. McClure, founder of McClure's Magazine, was the speaker for February 12. Mr. McClure discussed the relation of the national magazine of today to the problems of the nation. He spent a great part of the time in dis- cussing the problems of today ( and said that Germany was much more advanced than the United States in the solution of many of the problems which confront us. He urged the men to give themselves to the bettering of citizenship, and said the one great necessity was for honesty.

Mr. Walter P. Eaton, formerly on the New York Sun as dramatic critic, spoke February 19. He began by taking exception to the type of plays usually put on by college dramatic clubs, and arguing for a different standard in college dramatic work.. Continuing, he expressed desire that the colleges should take more interest in the modern drama, and said that its greatest needs were good actors, good writers, and good audiences. The colleges ought to be able to produce dramatists of power and audiences of discrimination.