MANY AND VARIED SPEAKERS
Dartmouth and other lecture halls have witnessed a wide variety of visiting lecturers during the past few weeks. The most noted speaker to come to Hanover since the Easter vacation was Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes, of Columbia, who gave three lectures on the 17th, 18th, and 19th on the subject of Nationalism. Professor Hayes, one of America's foremost historians and the author of the textbook used for many years by Dartmouth European history students, was brought to Hanover by the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation.
In continuing their initial program of securing interesting speakers from different fields of American life, the Junto presented Daniel Gregory Mason, McDowell professor of Music at Columbia, who gave one of his "Informal Music Hour" talks on April 12; and, on the 16th, Allan Taub, assistant secretary of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, was introduced to speak on the Southern lynchings. Mr. Taub, a cagey propagandist, devoted a good part of his lecture in Dartmouth Hall to a plea for Communism, and then, after switching over to the Scottsboro case, so convincingly upheld the defense of the "Scottsboro boys" that he was able to inviegle a large portion of the two hundred present into adopting a motion to send to the Southern judge hearing the case a telegram pleading the release of the alleged culprits. The meeting broke up with Mr. Taub neatly brushing aside scattered opposition and rewording the telegram prepared by the President of the Junto.
The new undergraduate religious organization, the Dartmouth Union, continued its series of lectures to present outstanding speakers of principal religious and philosophical groups, by having Professor Robert speak on "Catholicism." Louis Mumford again returned to Hanover to give two talks; the Department of Botany and Zoology presented Dr. Albert O. Gross of Bowdoin College to talk on wild bird life; and Captain C. W. R. Knight, well-known authority on falconry, spoke on "Monarchs of the Air."
Violinist Albert Spalding played in Webster Hall shortly before the Easter vacation in the fourth of the Dartmouth College musical series. Before a capacity and eager audience he handled the Mozart sonatas and Dvorak Concerto with distinguished grace and brilliance. The series will be Completed on May when the Hanover Symphony Orchestra gives its concert in Webster.
