MOORE LECTURESHIPS FOR 1922

Announcement has already been made of the lectures on the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation to be given immediately after the Commencement period. The lecturers this year will be Professor Charles A. Beard, Director of the Training School for Public Service of New York City, and William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Beard will speak on the social, political and economic conditions of present-day Europe, while Professor Phelps lias for his general subject "The Spirit of American Literature."

The Dartmouth Alumni Lectureships have been madè possible through the generous gift of an endowment by Henry L. Moore of the Class of 1877 as a memorial to his son, Guernsey Center Moore, of the Class of 1904, who died while an undergraduate at Dartmouth.

The lectures will begin on June 21 and continue through June 29. The subjects announced are as follows :

Professor Charles Austin Beard

1. The New Background of the War. A study of the diplomatic revelations since 1914.

2. Business since the War. Manufactures, trade, oil, and imperialism.

3. The State of European Finance. Debts, currency and taxation.

4. The Revolution in Agriculture. Dissolution of great estates in eastern Europe and the changed relations of town and country.

5. The New Constitutions of Europe. The development of political democracy —especial study of the German constitution.

6. The Labor Movement and Socialism. Socialists and the war—the Second International-socialistic experiments.

7. The Russian Revolution. Causes and economic consequences.

8. America and the World Situation. Economic supremacy—sea power—strategic position on the Atlantic and Pacific —the prospect before us—the alternatives.

Professor William Lyon PhelpsThe Spirit of American Literature

1. Two representatives of American character—Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin.

2. The spirit of romance—James Fenimore Cooper.

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism.

4. Political Ideals—Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln.

5. The American Philosopher—Emerson.

6. American Humor—Mark Twain.

7. Contemporary Poetry.

8. Contemporary Fiction and Drama.