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Dr. John R. Mott, who will address the University in the New Lecture Hall Thursday evening at 6.45 o'clock, is one of the most prominent public figures in America today. Not only in connection with student and Y. M. C. A. work, but also through public services of a political and general nature, he has won recognition as one of the most brilliant men and powerful forces in international activities.

Dr. Mott is a graduate of Cornell University in the class of 1888. Immediately after graduation, he entered upon his work for the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. acting as a traveling secretary among students in the universities and colleges of the United States and Canada. He was also made Chairman of the Student Volunteer Movement, his work in this connection being to recruit missionaries for various church boards.

In 1895, with the forming of the World's Student Christian Federation consisting of separate Student Movements in 12 countries, Dr. Mott was elected General Secretary, a position which he has held ever since. In that capacity he made an extensive tour of the world, 1895 to 1897, during which he studied carefully the academic life of the different nations and founded the Student Movements of India, China, Japan, and Australia. In recognition of this world-Wide work in behalf of students, Yale University conferred upon him the degree of M. A. in 1899. After this first tour of the world, Dr. Mott recorded and condensed his impressions of the different countries visited into his book "Strategic Points in the World's Conquest."

Since 1898, Dr. Mott has held the position of Senior Secretary of the Foreign Department of the Y. M. C. A., the purpose of which is the planting of branch associations in countries outside of North America and Europe. His duties as Secretary have required extensive travel together with a through study of the conditions of young men, and especially of student classes in all parts of the world. At present he is undertaking a nation-wide campaign for the Y. M. C. A. Red Triangle War Work among soldiers.