NOTED SPEAKERS ADDRESS DARTMOUTH STUDENTS

During the past month, several widely known speakers have addressed Dartmouth audiences. On March 8, under the auspices of the Dartmouth Men's League for Equal Suffrage, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, perhaps the best known advocate for woman's rights, gave a strong address in Webster Hall. Her powerful oratory, clear and logical, and interspersed with sparkling wit, won many converts to her cause from the student body. Among other delightful gems of wit, she called attention to the fact that whenever men wished to appear especially dignified they always put on a gown. She protested against the present law denying the ballot to "paupers, idiots, criminals, illiterates, and women," thus classing her sex with the dregs of humanity. Her closing words well sum up her address and her attitude on the question: "Are we not citizens of a great commonwealth ? Have we not the same interests as bur fellow citizens? Is there anything which concerns the commonwealth which does not concern us? Are there not some questions which we are more capable of deciding than men? A truthful answer to these questions would bring to woman the ballot."

Another well-known speaker, Dean Walter Taylor Sumner of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Chicago, gave a series of strong and purposeful talks on social conditions and problems. He is a Dartmouth man of the class of '98, and came back under the auspices of the Christian Association in order to impress on the students of his alma mater their ever-increasing responsibility in the matter of taking a share in the solving of social problems. He put forth as the three essential requisites of a citizen, knowledge, loyalty, and action.

Another speaker coming to Hanover under the auspices of the D. C. A. was Mr. J. W. Pontius of New York, the Students' Y.M.C.A. secretary for the eastern section of the United States. In a talk entitled "The Way Out," he dealt in a very practical way with the college man's temptations and the way to escape them.