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Tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock Mr. Sherwood Eddy, the famous Christian leader, will speak at the Union, under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club and of the Phillips Brooks House Association. A dinner will be given for Mr. Eddy at the Liberal Club at 6 o'clock to which the members of the club as well as a number of Phillips Brooks House men who are especially interested in the activities of the Liberal Club have been invited. Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 will introduce Mr. Eddy, who will speak on "The Challenge of the Present World Situation".
Mr. Eddy graduated from yale with the class of '91. In 1896 he went to India where he had spent fifteen years among the students of the empire when he was asked by the Y. M. C. A. to become Secretary for Asia of that organization. In this capacity Mr. Eddy gave nine years of service among the students and officials of India, China, Japan, the Near East and Russia.
During the two years 1912-1913 Mr. Eddy was engaged with Dr. John R. Mott in conducting students meetings throughout Asia. In spite of the World War Mr. Eddy's Chinese audiences of 1914 averaged 3000 people a night. After leaving China in the early part of the war he was with the British Army, while in the closing years he was with the forces on the French-and American fronts.
Mr. Eddy has published several works, including "The Supreme Decision", followed by "The Awakening of India", "The New Era in Asia," "The Students of Asia", "With Our Soldiers in France", "The Right to Fight", and finally his latest work, "Everybody's World". These books deal with conditions in the Far and Near East and show also America's relation to the problems of the world.
The speaker has just finished a tour which included 18 of the principal countries of Europe and the Near East. On his various trips Mr. Eddy was made a careful study of the social and industrial problems of different countries, and has interviewed prominent leaders of both labor and capital, recording the impressions gleaned in this manner in his books and articles which he has published.
Besides entertaining Mr. Eddy tomorrow the Liberal Club is giving a luncheon today at which Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 will address the club. The members will also have the opportunity of hearing two students of the class of '22 at Clark University, S. L. Dixby and Stewart pratt. These two men will speak on the "Free Speech Fight" which has been caused by president Atwood's censorship decree
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