AESTHETICS ENTERS SYMPOSIUM ATP. B.H.

The Phillips Brooks House will present an innovation at 8 o'clock this evening in the form of a symposium on "Religion and the Arts." Three distinguished representatives of three different departments of art in the University have been obtained to speak tonight.

Lowes Opens Discussion

Professor J. L. Lowes '03 of the Department of English will open the discussion with a talk on "Religion and Literature." He will be followed by Professor A. T. Davison '06, of the Department of Music, who will deliver a discourse on "Religion and Music."

Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture, will conclude the triangular symposium by a discussion of "Religion and the Fine Arts". His talk will be accompanied by lantern slides.

Religious Ecstacy is Inspiration

Each of the speakers has been allowed 25 minutes to present his views. The purpose of them all will be to show that the common foundation for art and in great measure the inspiration for it has been religious ecstacy. The emotion that drives men to create beautiful things is basically the same as that which makes them worship a diety. The symposium will tend to bring out the fact that art is a form of worship.

Davison Discusses Church Music

Professor Davison stated yesterday that he would restrict himself to church music and hymns and the part they play in religious worship. As Professor Davison is Organist and Choir Master at Appleton Chapel and has recently returned from study in Europe of Continental choral and musical customs, his talk will be of great interest.

Dean Edgell, when interviewed yesterday, said, "The first dictionary definition of a symposium is 'thinking party'. I shall limit my contribution to this 'party' to a discussion of how religion is expressed in architecture, sculpture and painting. In proving these various instances, I shall have a dozen or more slides for illustration."

Lowes Has Double Objective

Professor Lowes is expected to talk about the influence of religion on literature and the converse of this, the influence of literature on religion.

The symposium has been arranged by the Lecture Committee of Phillips Brooks House, in accordance with its plans to

Popularize religious discussion among members of the University. It will be followed by a similar meeting on November 18 on "Science and Religion." Dr. John Roach Stratton, a leading fundamentalist, will exchange opinions with Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department, a noted modernist, at this controversy.

"The symposiums should be especially interesting to college men," declared C. G. T. Lundell '27 yesterday, "inasmuch as they bring together at one time leaders in several branches of thought, to share their views on a common subject. The audience is in the position of an impartial judge, able to select the best opinions and judge the correct point of view. The speakers have to condense into the time allowed them the outstanding facts in their field, Accordingly, the symposium constitutes a resume of several subjects presented in a brief and attractive way."

The meeting will be in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening and will be open to all members of the University. The symposium is the first of its kind to be presented at Harvard or any other college in the country, and marks a definite advance in further popularizing the Phillips Brooks lecture course