Smoke Talks

One of the most enjoyable smoke talks of the year was given on February 25, when Dr. Edward A. Steiner, of Grinnell College, lowa, gave an address on "The New Immigrant and the New Problem." The speaker urged that the immigrant problem was one of instruction by the American people in the best methods of citizenship, saying that the salvation of the immigrant depends upon us, and appealed to the college men of the country to use their influence to purify politics.

Speaking on "Civic Religion, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, of the New Synagogue of New York City, spoke at the smoker on March 4, wishing, as he said, to lay before the student body a few homely truths about politics to provoke discussion. He declared that country needed purification of politics, and "that no religion is more worthy of an American than civic religion."

George L. Fox, principal of the University Preparatory School at New Haven, delivered a lecture upon his experi- ences in the last two campaigns in England while speaking in the interests of the Liberal party, on March 11. An enthusiastic Liberal, he read clippings and stories by the British press attacking the Tories, and expressed his observation that English politics offer a training school for Americans who wish to fight electoral corruption in this country.