Lectures on "The Social Problem"

During the coming winter a series of lectures will be given on "The Social Problem and its Remedies." The first six lectures will deal with problems in politics, poverty, vice and crime, medicine, law, and economics. Lectures on remedies for these problems will follow. The remedies proposed by the conservatives, the insurgents, the new nationalists, the single taxers, the anarchists, the individualists, the socialists, and the church will be explained in separate lectures. Among the lecturers will be Lincoln Steffens, managing editor of McClure's Magazine, and associate editor of the American Magazine, Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsay, the originator of the juvenile court system, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot '89, counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Louis Brandeis L.'77, counsel in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, John Graham Brooks t.'75, lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist, and former president of the Great Northern Railroad system, Senator R. M. LaFoliette of Wisconsin, prominent in encouraging the election of United States senators by direct vote, Gifford Pinchot, head of the movement for federal conservation and ex-chairman of the Forestry Commission. Henry George, Jr., congressman and author of several works on political economy. Hutchins Hapgood '92, writer on political topics. Brand Whitlock, socialist mayor of Toledo, Ohio, Charles Edward Russell, editorial writer for the Hearst papers and Bishop Arthur Liewellyn Williams of Nebraska.

Mr. Lincoln Steffens will deliver the first lecture of the series in Emerson J on Friday at 4.30 P. M. The public is cordially invited. Mr. Steffens's subject will be "The Problem in Politics."

A committee composed of the following members of the Faculty is in charge of the series: Dean Briggs, Professors C. A. Adams, G. P. Baker, H. E. Clifford, H. N. Davis, E. F. Gay, A. B. Hart, L. J. Johnson, F. L. Kennedy, G. H. Parker, R. B. Perry, Josiah Royce, W. Z. Ripley, G. Santayana, F. W. Taussig, and Professor T. Smith of the Medical School