Professor Alfred L. Smith of the Tuck School on September 26 addressed the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries at their convention held in Cleveland on "Secretarial Requirements." On September 28 Professor Smith discussed before the New Hampshire Hotel Association at Maplewood, N. H., a proposed campaign for the development of New Hampshire's resources through the reo rganization of the state board of trade.
Mr. Harold G. Rugg, assistant to the librarian, spoke on "Some Vermont Books for Vermont Libraries" at the annual meeting of the Vermont Library Association and the Vermont Free Public Library Commission held in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on October 19.
Mr. N. L. Goodrich, librarian, on October 20, addressed the union meeting of the New Hampshire Library Association and the Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts Library Clubs. His subject was "The Literature of Mountaineering; an Essay in Passionate Bibliography."
Professor F. L. Childs is delivering a series of six lectures on American Literature on successive Friday evenings from October 27 to December 8 under the auspices of the Teachers' Guild of Manchester. Professor Childs will give a similar course of lectures in January and February before the College Extension Club of Concord, N. H.