PROFESSORS PHELPS AND BEARD TO GIVE 1922 ALUMNI LECTURES
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University, and Charles A. Beard, Professor of History at Columbia, have been chosen as speakers for the second series of Alumni Lectures on the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation which will be given throughout the eight days immediately following Commencement, June 21.
Professor Phelps, distinguished critic and student of literature, well known as the author of "The Advance of the English. Novel", "The Advance of English Poetry", and "Essays on Modern Novelists", will deliver a series of eight lectures upon the general subject "The Spirit of American Literature". The titles of his lectures are as follows: Two Representatives of American Character—Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin; The Spirit of Romance— James Fenimore Cooper; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism; Political Ideals—Daniel Web- ster and Abraham Lincoln; The American Philosopher—Emerson; American Humor— Mark Twain; Contemporary Poetry; Contemporary Fiction and Drama.
Professor Beard, author of "Contemporary American History", "The Development of Modern Europe", and "American Government and Politics", will lecture upon present day social, political, and economic conditions in Europe. His topics will be, The New Background of the War; Business since the War; The State of European Finance; The Revolution in Agriculture; The New Constitutions of Europe; The Labor Movement and Socialism; The Russian Revolution; America and the World Situation.
The Dartmouth Alumni Lectureships, which were begun last year, were established by the gift to Dartmouth of $100,000 by Henry L. Moore, of Minneapolis, in memory of his son, Guernsey Center Moore, of the class of 1904. They are designed to perpetuate the cultural influence of the College upon its graduates and are given annually for the benefit of alumni and visitors to Hanover who care to remain in Hanover for the week following Commencement. It is expected that a large number of alumni will this year wish to attend the lectures, one of which, in each series, will be given daily.
