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Drake states in his preface: "Where people congregate for any good purpose they · sing, and
forum audiences, above all, should voice their
fine · ideals in song."
Nothing has been more conducive to the good
nature and to the smooth running of Ford Hall
than the community singing indulged in immediately after the speaker has finished his lecture.
Before the intermission begins, the audience is
requested to rise, a chosen song is indicated, and
then there follows relaxation in song, unless your
neighbor possesses the same sort . of voice as
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The following Ford Hall programs, presented
in chronological order, testify · as to the wide
range of public interest included in the topics and
also to the diversity of speakers enlisted.
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BARRY, ROBERT A. WOODS. (Opening night.)
Mar. 1.,--Prof. CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH, "The Brotherhood of Man."
Mar. 8-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "What the
Jew Has Done for the World and What the World Has
Done to the Jew."
Mar. 15-Reir. LEIGHTON WILLIAMS, D.D ., "The Demoer a tic Gospel."
Mar. 22-Rev. THOMAS R.. SLICER, D.D., "Three Ways
of Doing Good."
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Modern Christian Life to the Social Problem."
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Nov.
1-Prof. THOMAS NIXON CARVER, LL.D., "A Man
and His Vote."
Nov. 8-Miss ELIZABETH S. COLTON, "The People and
Problems of India."
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Nov. 15-Prof. WILLIAM SALTER, "Tolstoi's Story of 'A
Soul's Resurrection.' "
Nov. 22-Reir. 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D., Rev. PHILO W.
SPRAGUE, Rev. GEORGE WILLIS COOKE, Rev. DANIEL EVANS, D .D. Symposium: "Socialism as I See It."
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Nov. 29-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Are
Our National Standards Ethical?'"
Dec. 6-Prof. BORDEN PARKER BOWNE, "Life-And a
Good Life."
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Dec. 13-Rabhi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "The Tyranny
of Majorities."
. Dec. 20-LOUIS D. ,BRANDEIS, "The · Ethics of Savings
Bank Insurance."
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Dec. 27-Rev. ALBERT PARKER FITCH, D .D., "Christmas
as· a Social Institution."
Jan. 3-LINCOLN STEFFENS, "Other People's Graft." .
Jan. 10-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Th e State and Morality."
Jan. 17-KEIR HARDIE, M.P., "Reforms Accomplished by
the British La bor Party."
Jan. 24-Rev. CHARLES STELZLE, "Why the Church Cannot Accept Socialism."
Jan. 31-JAMES 0. FAGAN, "The Man, the Accident, and
the Railroad."
Feb. 7-Prof. S. L. JOSHI , "The Awakening of the Orient
and What It -Means to the Occident."
Feb. 14-W. N. HARTSHORN, "The Life of Daniel Sharp
Ford."
COL. EDWAR,p ANDERSON, "The Man and the Statesman."
Feb. 21-Mrs. ·FLORENCE KELLEY, "New England's Lost
Leadership in Child Labor Legislation."
Feb. 28-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "Things That
Separate Men and Things That Unite Them."
Mar . . 7-Prof. CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH, "Working
with the People."
Mar. 14-HORACE FLETCHER, "Feeding for Efficiency." .
Mar. 21-JOHN Z. WHITE, · "Unemployment : Its Cause and
Cure."
Mar. 28-J. ADAMS PUFFER, "The Boy and the Gang."
Apr. 4-FRANKLIN H. WENTWORTH, " The Woman's
Portion."
Mrs. MARION CRAIG WENTWORTH, "Votes for
Women."
Apr. 11-GEORGE W. COLEMAN, "The Religion of the
Crowd."
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Nov. 7-FREDERICK VAN EEDEN, M.D., "Religion and
Business."
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Nov. 14--:---Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The Fellowship of the
Common Life."
Nov. 21-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The Moral Unrest of Our Time."
Nov. 28-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, "The Church and the
Workingman."
Dec. 5-Prof. WILLIAM SALTER, "Bernard Shaw as a Social Critic."
Dec. 12-Rev. JOHN HOPKINS DENISON, ".When Is Marriage a Success?"
. Dec. 19-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Religion of the Common Life."
Dec. 26-Rev. · 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D ., "Holidays and Holy
Days."
Jan. 2-Prof. EDWARD · A. ROSS, LL.D .; "Commercialism."
Jan. 9-Rt. Rev. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, S.T.D., LL.D.,
"Has the Church Failed?"
Jan. 16-HENRY STERLING; "The Case for the Workingman."
Jan. 23-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, .Ph.D ., "Reforms and Reformers."
Jan. 30-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "The
Transition from the Present to a Co-operative Order of
Society."
Feb. 6-Dean SHAILER MATHEWS, D .D ., "Can the Modern Man be Religious?"
Feb. 13-JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN, "The Case for
the Employer."
Feb. 20-JOSEPH FELS, "The English Budget and What It
Means."
Feb. 27-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "The Hebrew
Prophets: The Creators of Modern Religion."
Mar. 6-Prof. EDvV ARD A. STEINER, "The Search for
Brotherhood."
Mar. 13-JOHN SPARGO, "The Life and Work of Karl
Marx."
1910-11-F.O URTH SEASON
Oct. 16-HENRY GEORGE, Jr., "Has the Single Tax Got
Anywhere?"
Oct. 23-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, "The Church and the
Democratic Ideal."
Oct. 30-ALFRED H. BROWN, "The Modern Drama as a
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Nov. 6-Rev. ARTHUR H. SMITH, D .D ., "When East
Mee'ts West."
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Nov. 13-Rev. GEORGE R. LUNN, D.D., "What Happened
in Schenectady."
Nov. 20-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Thr
Church and the Social Awakening."
Nov. 27- Rev. ALFRED W. WISHART, "The Spiritual Significance of Secular Vocations."
Dec. +-ALFRED SUDEKUM, Ph.D., "The Social Movement in Germany."
Dec. 11-Rev. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., "Why I Believe in
Immortality."
Dec. 18-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Man and Woman."
Dec. 25-Rev. 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D ., "The Birth of the Social
Idea."
Jan. 1-Rev. SAMUEL ZANE BATTEN, D.D., "The Man
at the Bottom."
Jan. 8-Rt. Rev. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, S.T.D., LL.D .,
"What Religion Can Do for a Man."
_Tan. 15-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D.D., LL. D.,
"Wealth-Productive, Predatory, and Parasitic."
Jan. 22-Pres. W. H . P. FAUNCE, D .D, LLD ., "Education
without Schools."
Jan. 29-Rev. HERBERT S. BIGELOW, "Stealing as a Fine
Art."
Feb. 5-Rev. THOMAS I. GASSON, S.J ., "The Dangers of
Socialism."
Feb. 12-W. E . BURGHARDT DU BOIS, Ph.D., "The World
Problem of the Color Line."
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Feb. 19-DE WITT G. WILCOX, M .D., "Health, Hygiene,
and Happiness."
Feb. 26-MEYER BLOOMFIELD, SUSAN W . FITZ GERALD, EDWIN D. MEAD, JAMES P . MUNROE, MORRISON I. SWIFT. Symposium: "What These Meetings
Have Done for Boston."
Mar. 5-Rev. JAMES A. FRANCIS, D.D., "The Get-Together Basis in Religion."
Mar. 12-J. W. BENGOUGH, "The Sacredness of Property."
Mar. 19-Mrs. -ELLEN H . RICHARDS, "Does the Increased
Cost of Living Mark a Social Advance?"
Mar. 26-Mrs. HELEN I. GRENFELL, "What Women Have
Done in Colorado with the Vote."
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Apr. 2-Rabbi MAURICE H . HARRIS, Ph.D., "The Bible
as Literature."
Apr. 9-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Social Function of the
Press."
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the Matter with the Church."
. MORRISON I. SWIFT, " What is the Matter with the People Outside the Church?"
Oct. 22-Mrs. MAUD WOOD PARK, "Woman the World
Around."
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Oct. 29-ALBERT E. WINSHIP, LL.D., "Eliminating the
Hoodlum Element Among Boys."
Nov. 5-FREDERIC C. HOWE, Ph.D., " How to Make Boston Efficient, Comfortable and Beautiful."
Nov. 12-EDWIN D. MEAD, "The United States as a World
· Power."
Nov. 19-Rev. R. J. CAMPBELL, D.D., "Social and , Economic
Conditions in England." _
Nov. 26-Pres. DAVID STARR JORDAN, LL.D., "The Case
Against War."
Dec. 3-Pres. SAMUEL C. MITCHELL, LL.D., "Racial Adjustment."
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Dec. 10-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D .D., LL.D.,
"The Church and Social Justice."
Dec. 17-Pres. W . H. P. FAUNCE, D .D., LL.D., "The Man
and the Machine."
Dec'. 2+-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The Nation's Human
Resources."
Dec. 31-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "Wanted: A
Moral Renaissance."
Jan. 7-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Significance of Insurgency."
Jan . .!+-Mrs. GLENDOWER EVANS, Miss LEONORA
O'REILLY, "The Working Woman and the State."
Jan. 21-WILLIAM T. ELLIS, LL.D., "America's Influence
Upon the Older Nations."
Jan. 28-Prof. JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP, LL.D., ''Science
and Iinmortality."
Feb. +-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D ., "The Living Wage.''
Feb. 11-HARRY PHILLIPS, "The Outlook for Temperance."
Feb. - 18-RAY STANNARD BAKER, "The Progressive Spirit
in Politics.''
Feb. 25-Dr. CHARLES FLEISCHER, "Getting to be
Human."
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Mar. 3-Rev. JAMES H. FRANKLIN, D.D., "The Message
of Christianity to Socialists."
Mar. 10-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "The Claim
of the Decalogue on the Modern Man.''
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Mar. 17-JAMES SCHERMERHORN, "The Ethics of ii
Newspaper Man."
Mar. 24--Mrs. EMILY MONTAGUE BISHOP, "Scenes from
the Senate."
Mar. 31-STANTON COIT, Ph.D., "Am I My Brother's
Keeper?"
Apr. 7-JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS, "The New Schism in
Socialism."
Apr. 14--De·an SHAILER MATHEWS, D.D., "Evoiution and
Religion."
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Anarchy and Socialism."
Oct. 20-Rabbi MAURICE H. HARRIS, Ph.D., "The Function of the Jew in the World's Economy."
Oct. 27-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Christianity and Socialism : Their Larger Parallels."
Nov. 3-ALFRED W. McCANN, "How ·shall the People Get
Pure Food?"
Nov. 10-Prof. HENRY C. VEDDER, D.D., "Concerning Law
and Order."
Nov. 17-CLIFFORD G. ROE, "The Un-Social Evil."
Nov. 24--Judge BEN B. LINDSEY, "Giving the Boy a
Square Deal.''
Dec. 1-Baroness VON SUTTNER, "International Friendship Instead of ·W ar."
Dec. 8-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The Moral Significance of the New Politics."
Dec. 15-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "The Warfare
Against Poverty."
. Dec. 22-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "How Much of the
New Order is in the Present?"
Dec. 29-Prof. CHARLES PROSPERO FAGNANI, D.D.,
"God and Democracy."
Jan. 5-Mrs. ANNA GARLIN SPENCER, "Are the Public
Schools Democratic?"
Miss FRANCES G. CURTIS and ISAAC HARRIS, "The
Local Situation."
Jan. 12-Prof. VIDA D. SCUDDER, "The Moral Asset of
the Class Struggle."
Jan. 19-'-YAMEI KIN, M.D., "The Awakening of China."
Jan. 26-JOSEPH FELS, "Just Taxation the Hope of the
vVorld."
Feb. 2-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D., "The Right and Wrong
of the Labor Union."
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9-EDWARD A. FILENE, "The Growing Pains of .Democracy."
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Feb. 16-STEWART ANDERSON, "As an Immigrant Sees
It."
Feb. 23-Birthday Night. (Special program.)
Mar. 2-Dr. J. A. MACDONALD, "War . and the Human
Breed."
Mar. 9-Prof. EARL BARNES, "A Successful Failure: A
Study of Robert Owen."
Mar. 16-Rev:. LEVI M. POvVERS, D.D., "Some Suggestions
from Germany as to Necessary Steps in Social Legislation."
Mar. 23-Rev. NICHOLAS VAN DER PYL, "Lessons from
Re.cent Industrial Outbreaks."
Mar. 30-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Social Message of
Modern English Writers."
Apr. 6-Prof. COLIN A. SCOTT, Ph.D., Miss MARY
MULRY, Miss LOTTA C. CLARK, "Training for Leaderhip."
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Free Speech."
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Oct. 26-Prof. EARL BARNES, "The Family of the Future."
Nov. 2-Miss MARY ANTIN, "The American Gospel Day
by Day."
Nov. 9-GEORGE W. HOPKINS, "Advertising and Eco- .
nomics."
GEORGE B. GALLUP, "Advertising and Democracy."
WILLIAM SHA ·w, LL.D., "Advertising arid Religion."
Nov. 16-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "What's Wrong
with the Jew?"
Nov. 23-Rev. PAUL MOORE STRAYER, D.D., "How to
Socialize a Competitive World."
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Nov. 30-PETER CLARK MACFARLANE, "The Courage to
Attack."
Dec. 7-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Modern Drama as a
Social Force."
Dec. 14--Miss MARY P. FOLLETT, "The Social Centre and
the Democratic Ideal."
JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT, Ph.D., "The Social Centre
and Direct Action."
Dec. 21-Prof. CHARLES . ZUEBLIN, "Walt Whitman:
Prophet and Democrat."
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Scientific?"
Jan. 4-Bishop JOHN W. HAMILTON, D.D., "Is It Fair?"
Jan. 11-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "A Forwa rd Step
Which Has Been Successfully Taken in Fitchburg."
Mrs. SUSAN W. FITZ GERALD, "A Fundamental Difficulty in the Way of Improving Boston's Schools."
Jan. 18-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D.D., LL.D.,
"Why I Work for the Single Tax."
Jan. 25-Prof. ALBION W. SMALL, LL.D ., "The Strength
and Weakness of Socialism."
Feb. 1-HORACE J. BRIDGES, "The Gospel of . Ellen
Key."
Feb. 8-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, "The International
Mind and the Inter-racial Heart."
Feb. 15-HUGH CABOT, M .D., "The Problems of Sex Education."
DE WITT G. WILCOX, M.D.,
"The ·scourge of Venereal Disease."
Rev. EDWARD CUMMINGS, "The Responsibilities of
Parenthood."
Feb. -22-CHARLES BRANDON BOOTH, "The Case for the
Prisoner."
Mar. 1-LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE, "Tolstoi, the Man."
Mar. 8-Mrs. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, '-'Uncle Sam
and the Sons of Ham."
Mar. 15-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "The Challenge of Socialism to Christianity.'
Mar. 22-Rev. FRAN K 0 . HALL, D.D., "The Moral Law."
Mar. 29-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Economic Aspects
of Woman Suffrage."
Apr. 5-A. J. PHILPOTT, "The Press and Society."
GEORGE PERRY MORRI S, "Some Ethical Aspects of Editorial Work."
Apr. 12-Prof. THOMAS C. HALL, D .D., "Religion and Social Revolution."
Apr. 19-Prof . WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., " Is the
Woman Movement Going to Save Society "
1914-15-EIGHTH SEASON
Oct. 18-WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING, "The Message of
Syndicalism."
Oct. 25-Miss MARY ANTIN, "God and His Worlcl."
Nov. 1-Prof. EARL BARNES, "What Work Should Give
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Nov. 8-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "Energy-Undirected and Misdirected."
Nov. 15-JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT, Ph.D., "The Child
and the City."
Nov. 22-LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE, "Will Democracy Endure?"
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Prison-'What?"
Dec. 6-STANTON COIT, Ph.D., "Is Civilization a Disease?"
Dec. 13--NORMAN HAPGOOD , "The Military Ideal."
Dec. 20-BOUCK WHITE, "Ii Christ Were to Come on
Christmas Day."
Dec. 27-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Militancy and Morals."
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Jan. 3-Rev. GEORGE A. GORDON, D .D., "A .Message for
the New Year."
Jan. 10-Rabbi HARRY LEVI, "The New Morality."
Jan. 17-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "From Absolute
Monarchy to Pure Democracy in Industry."
Jan. 24-Rev. JOHN W. ROSS, "The Credit Side."
Jan. 31-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D .D., "The
Economic Basis of Democracy."
Feb. 7-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D ., "Minimum Wage Laws
and Their Operation in America."
Feb. 14-LOUIS. WALLIS, "The Newer Issues in Democracy."
Feb. 21-"-S. K. RATCLIFFE, " Classes and Masses in the
England of Today."
Feb. 28-PETER WITT, "A City Finding Itself."
Mar. 7-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D ., "What Con-.
stitutes a Good Jew?"
Mar. 14-JOHN SPARGO, " Socialism and the War."
Mar. 21-Frau ROSIKA SCHWIMMER, "Women and ·war."
Mar. 28-Prof. FRANK O'HARA, "What Irish Immigration
· Has Done for America."'
Apr. 4-Prof. CHARLES PROSPERO FAGNANI, D.D .,
"The ·war, the World, and the Kingdom of God."
Apr. 11-Prof. ,HARRY F. WARD, "What Constitutes a Good
American'?"
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Oct. 17-LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, "Zionism and the Aims of
Jewish Democracy."
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Oct. 31-Hon. FRANCIS NEILSON, M.P., "Sign-Posts of De!Docracy."
Nov. 7-Rev. SAMUEL ZANE BATTEN, D.D ., "Is God or
Man to Blame?"
Nov. 14-MORRIS HILLQUIT, "Some Current Economic and
Political P roblems."
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Nov. 21-LOUIS F. POST, "Government Intervention in Idleness."
Nov. 28-JAMES P. MAGENIS, "Some Lessons Learned ·
from the Law."
Dec. 5-HENRY TURNER BAILEY, "Socializing the Public
Schools."
Dec. 12-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "Shall Birth Control Be
Di scussed?"
Dec. 19--'-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, " Conservation Versus Immigratio n."
Dec. 26-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The United States:
Pacemaker or Peacemaker?"
Jan. 2-Rabbi MAURICE H. HARRIS, Ph.D., "America's
Exposition and Europe's War: A Contrast."
Jan. 9-HUTCHINS HAPGOOD, "What Is an Anarchist?"
Jan. 16-Rev. J. HOWARD MELISH, " Humanity First."
Jan. 23-Hon. GEORGE L. RECORD, "The High· Cost of
· Li:;,.ing: Its Cause and Remedy."
Jan. 30-S. K. RATCLIFFE, "The War and the Outlook for
Democracy."
Feb. 6-WOODS HUTCHINSON, M.D., "The Medical
Treatment of Crime."
Feb. 13-Prof. SCOTT NEARING, "Working and Owning
for a Living."
Feb. 20-ALFRED W. MARTIN, "What Are We Here
For?"
Feb. 27.-Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "Italian Immigration
After the War."
Mar. 5-Rev. WILLIAM HARMAN . VAN ALLEN, S.T.D.,
"The Discipline of Struggle."
Mar. 12-ANDRE TRIDON, "An Inside View of Mexico."
Mar. 19-ProL ARTHUR HOLMES, "What of the Backward
Child?"
Mar. 26-Mrs. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, . "What
Feminism Is-and Isn't."
Apr. 2-Rev. HE NRY F. COPE, D.D ., "The Family and the
Moral Crisis."
Apr. 9-Rev. ABRAHAM M. RIHBANY, "Some Phases of
Democracy."
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Nov.. 5-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The International Mind."
Nov. 12-JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., "The Happiest Era in
Human History."
Nov. 19-Rev. WILLIAM NORMAN GUTHRIE, "The Problem of a New American Patriotism."
Nov. 26-ROGER W. BABSON, "Labor's Only Hope."
Dec. 3-Rev. EDWARD F. SANDERSON, "Something to
Tie to."
Dec; 10- RICHARD A. FEISS, "Personal Relationship in
Business Administration."
Dec. 17-Miss KATE BARNARD, "Woman and Destiny."
Dec. 24-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "An American Sir Galahad."
Dec~ 31-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "Making a Living
and a Life."
Jan. 7-Hon. GEORGE R. LUNN, "The Progress of Democracy."
Jan. 14-Prof. HUGH BLACK, D.D., "The Meaning of
Life."
Jan. 21-Mrs. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, "Our
Brains and What Ails Them."
Jan. 28-IVY L. LEE, "What Is to Become of Our Railroads?"
Feb. 4-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D., "Fallacies of the Feminist Movement."
Feb. 11-EDWIN MARKHAM, "The Social Vision of
Jesus."
Feb. 18-RICHARD W. HALE, "The Truth About Property:
Who ·Uses It?"
Feb. ZS-WINTER RUSSELL, "Civic ~trife or Co-operation?"
Mar. 4-GERALD STANLEY LEE, "The President and the
Fate of the World: An Inauguration Day Greeting from
Ford Hall to the White House."
Mar. 11-Rabbi H. W. ETTELSON, : "From Persecution
Through Toleration to Brotherhood."
Mar. 18-GEORGE W. NASMYTH, Ph.D., "Nietzsche and
the European War."
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Nov. 4-HARVEY W. WILEY, M.D., "Whiskey and Tobacco."
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Nov. n-Miss HELEN LOUISE JOHNSON, "What Thrift
Means."
Nov. 18-S. P. CHUAN, "China and America."
Nov. 25-Prof. HENRY R. PATTENGILL, "Made in
America."
Dec. 2-Rev. HAROLD MARSHALL, D.D., "Self-Sacrifice
vs. Self-Preservation."
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Dec. 9-Mrs. BERTHA KUNZ BAKER, Reading of Bjornsen's Play, "Beyond Human Might."
Dec. 16-Prof. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, D.D., "A Religion for War Time."
Dec. 23-JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., "What Is Progress?"
Dec. 30-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Federalism and
World Organization."
Jan. 6-Rev. FRED P. HAGGARD, D .D., "The New Spirit
in Russia."
Jan. 13-P. F. SULLIVAN, "What the Bay State Railway Hasto Say for Itself."
Jan. 20-FELIX SHAY, "Why Socialistic Communities Always Fail as Such."
Jan. 27-MOORFIELD STOREY, "What Law Is and Why
We Need It."
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Feb. 3-B. R. BAUMGARDT, "The Romance of Human
Progress."
Feb. 10-Lieut. BRUNO ROSELLI, " Some Lessons Learned
at the Italian Front."
Feb. 17-Miss· MARGARET SLATTERY, "American Youth
and the New Democracy."
1918-19-TWELFTH SEASON
Oct. 20-ARTHUR GLEASON, "What America Can Learn
from the British Labo r Party's Program."
Oct. 27-Miss MARY VAN KLEECK, "Women and War
Work."
Nov. 3-GEORGE W. NASMYTH, Ph.D., "The Growing .
Power of the World's Labor Forces."
Nov. 10-ALBERT RHYS WILLIAMS, "The Bolsheviks and
the Labor Problem."
Nov. 17-NORMAN THOMAS, "What Shall We Do with
Victory?"
Nov. 24-PHILIP WHITWELL WILSON, "Britain's Problems, Including Ireland and India."
Dec. 1-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Effect of the War
on the Democratic Ideal."
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Oct. 19-Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "The Present Situation in
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Italy."
Oct. 26-Prof. EARL BARNES, "Shall the State Control Our
Ideas?"
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Nov. 2-Rev. CHARLES A. EATON, D.D., "New Factors in
Business."
_Nov. 9-Rev. JOHN HOWARD MELISH; "New Morals for
Old. Sins."
Nov. 16-Dean CHARLES R. BROWN, D .D., "Why I Am
Nat · a Socialist."
Nov. 23-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "The New Motive in Industry."
Nov. 30-EVERETT DEAN MARTIN, "A Twentieth Century View of Evolution."
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Dec. 7-Judge A. C. BACKUS, "What Society Owes the
Erring."
Dec. 14-JOHN A. FITCH;, " If Not Strikes-What?"
Dec. 21-Mrs. MARGARET DELAND, "The Dull Job.".
Dec. 28-Miss JEANNETTE RANKIN, "What the NonPartisan League Has Meant to American Politics."
Jan. 4-JOSEPH ERNEST McAFEE, "ls Religion Failing in
America?"
Jan. 11-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "Whence, Why,
Whither: A Survey of the Times."
Jan; 18-ALGERNON S. CRAPSEY, S.T.D., "The Ethics of
JESUS as a Basis of the New Social Order.'
Jan. ZS-EDMUND VANCE COOKE, "The Religion of Democracy."
Feb. 1-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D .- WILLIAMS, D.D., LL.D.',
"The Challenge ·of the Times."
Feb. 8-GEORGE CREEL, "The Irish Question from the
American Viewpoint.-"
Feb. 15-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "How to Americanize and How Not to Americanize.''
Feb. 22-Motion Picture Forum: "The Miracle Man.''
Feb. 29-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "I Go to WarAfterwards.''
Mar. 7-Rabbi . JUDAH L. MAGNES, Ph.D., "The Old
America and the New."
Mar. 14-HARLAN EUGENE READ, "Shall Inheritances Be
Abolished?"
Mar. Zl~MORRISON I. SWIFT and ROGER W. BABSON,
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Mar. 28-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, "The New World:
Who Wants It and How to Get. It.''
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Oct. 17-Presidential Night. RICHARD KITCHELT, Mrs.
SUSAN W. FITZ GERALD and GEORGE E. ROEWER,
Jr., " How I Shall Vote and Why."
Oct. 24--Prof. HENRY W. L. DANA, "Labor Conditions in
England, ·France and Germany."
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Oct. 31-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "Civil Liberty in the
United States."
Nov. i -TOYOKICHI IYENAGA, Ph.D., "Is There a Yellow Peril?"
Nov. 14--PHILIP CABOT, "The Spirit of the Employer."
WHITING WILLIAMS, "The Mind of the Worker."
Nov. 21-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Next Administration."
Nov. 28-Mrs. MARIETTA L. JOHNSON, "Education for
the New Age."
Dec. 5-Bishop FRAN CIS J. McCONNELL, "The Church
and Labor."
Dec. 12-W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, Ph.D ., "The Future of the Darker Races."
Dec. 19-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "What Shall We
Think of the Bolsheviki ?"
Dec .. 26-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Has America Any
Ideals?"
Jan. 2-ARTHUR D. REES, "Financial Imperialism . and the
Way Out."
Jan. 9-Prof. NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, "The Goal of Civilization."
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Jan. 16-WALTER W. LIGGETT, "The Future of the
American Press."
Jan. 23-Mrs. BEATRICE FORBES ROBERTSON-HALE,
"The Women of the Future."
Jan. 30-Prof. DAVID D . VAUGHAN, "The World Sweep
of Democracy."
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Feb. 6-EVERETT DEAN MARTIN, "The Psychology of
the Crow d Mind."
Feb. 13-Rev. WILLARD SCOTT, D.D., "The Coming New
World."
Feb. 20-Mrs. LUCIA AMES MEAD, "The New Education."
Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "The Industrial Revolution in
Italy."
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Mar. 13-EDWIN MARKHAM, "How to Think of the
Spiritual World."
Mar. 20-LOUIS F. POST, "Deportations."
Mar. 27-HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, Ph.D., "What
About Redeeming O\lr International Pledges?"
Apr. 3-EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS, L.H.D., "The Future of Democracy."
1921-22-FIFTEENTH SEASON
Oct. 16-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, " What's Wrong with
the World?"
Oct. 23-WALTER N. POLAKOV, "Korsybski's New Law of
Life."
Oct. 30-MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Ph.D., "The Balance Sheet
of the Russian Revolution-What the Revolution Did and
What It Failed to Accomplish."·
Nov. 6-TARAKNATH DAS, "Mahatma M. K. Gandhi
and the Progress of the Non-Violent Revolutionary Movement in India."
Nov. 13-Rev. G. S. LACKLAND, Ph.D., "Where the Church
Met Labor."
Nov. 20-ROGER W. BABSON, "The Business Man's Attiture Toward Education."
Nov. 27-Col. RAYMOND ROBINS, "World Disarmament or
World Revolution-Which?" ·
Dec. 4--Dr. TEHYI HSIEH, "What China Means to the
United States."
Dec. 11-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "Our Growing
Distrust of Democracy: Is It Justified?"
Dec. 18-CHARLES KROLL, "From Socialism to Businessand the Consequences."
Dec. ZS-CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Education for Freedom."
Jan. 1-HOMER B. HULBERT, F.R.G.S., "A Yank in the
Far East."
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Jan. 8-WHITING WILLIAMS, "Bayonets, . Bolshevism and
My .Buddies."
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Jan. 15-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "The Power of
Prejudice."
Jan. 22-EVERTT DEAN MARTIN, "The Idolatry of
Public Opinion."
Jan. z9_:_GLENN E. PLUMB, "Industrial Democracy."
Feb. 5-Rabbi LOUIS WOLSEY, "The Jewishness of Jesus."
Feb. 12-WILLIAM PICKENS, LL.D., "A Common Platform
for White and Black." ·
Feb. 19-Rev. JOHN A. RY AN,, D.D., "Is Labor Gaining or
Losing ?"
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forum audiences, above all, should voice their
fine · ideals in song."
Nothing has been more conducive to the good
nature and to the smooth running of Ford Hall
than the community singing indulged in immediately after the speaker has finished his lecture.
Before the intermission begins, the audience is
requested to rise, a chosen song is indicated, and
then there follows relaxation in song, unless your
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The following Ford Hall programs, presented
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1908-FIRST SEASON
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BARRY, ROBERT A. WOODS. (Opening night.)
Mar. 1.,--Prof. CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH, "The Brotherhood of Man."
Mar. 8-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "What the
Jew Has Done for the World and What the World Has
Done to the Jew."
Mar. 15-Reir. LEIGHTON WILLIAMS, D.D ., "The Demoer a tic Gospel."
Mar. 22-Rev. THOMAS R.. SLICER, D.D., "Three Ways
of Doing Good."
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Modern Christian Life to the Social Problem."
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Nov.
1-Prof. THOMAS NIXON CARVER, LL.D., "A Man
and His Vote."
Nov. 8-Miss ELIZABETH S. COLTON, "The People and
Problems of India."
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Nov. 15-Prof. WILLIAM SALTER, "Tolstoi's Story of 'A
Soul's Resurrection.' "
Nov. 22-Reir. 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D., Rev. PHILO W.
SPRAGUE, Rev. GEORGE WILLIS COOKE, Rev. DANIEL EVANS, D .D. Symposium: "Socialism as I See It."
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Nov. 29-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Are
Our National Standards Ethical?'"
Dec. 6-Prof. BORDEN PARKER BOWNE, "Life-And a
Good Life."
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Dec. 13-Rabhi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "The Tyranny
of Majorities."
. Dec. 20-LOUIS D. ,BRANDEIS, "The · Ethics of Savings
Bank Insurance."
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Dec. 27-Rev. ALBERT PARKER FITCH, D .D., "Christmas
as· a Social Institution."
Jan. 3-LINCOLN STEFFENS, "Other People's Graft." .
Jan. 10-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Th e State and Morality."
Jan. 17-KEIR HARDIE, M.P., "Reforms Accomplished by
the British La bor Party."
Jan. 24-Rev. CHARLES STELZLE, "Why the Church Cannot Accept Socialism."
Jan. 31-JAMES 0. FAGAN, "The Man, the Accident, and
the Railroad."
Feb. 7-Prof. S. L. JOSHI , "The Awakening of the Orient
and What It -Means to the Occident."
Feb. 14-W. N. HARTSHORN, "The Life of Daniel Sharp
Ford."
COL. EDWAR,p ANDERSON, "The Man and the Statesman."
Feb. 21-Mrs. ·FLORENCE KELLEY, "New England's Lost
Leadership in Child Labor Legislation."
Feb. 28-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "Things That
Separate Men and Things That Unite Them."
Mar . . 7-Prof. CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH, "Working
with the People."
Mar. 14-HORACE FLETCHER, "Feeding for Efficiency." .
Mar. 21-JOHN Z. WHITE, · "Unemployment : Its Cause and
Cure."
Mar. 28-J. ADAMS PUFFER, "The Boy and the Gang."
Apr. 4-FRANKLIN H. WENTWORTH, " The Woman's
Portion."
Mrs. MARION CRAIG WENTWORTH, "Votes for
Women."
Apr. 11-GEORGE W. COLEMAN, "The Religion of the
Crowd."
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Nov. 7-FREDERICK VAN EEDEN, M.D., "Religion and
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Nov. 14--:---Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The Fellowship of the
Common Life."
Nov. 21-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The Moral Unrest of Our Time."
Nov. 28-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, "The Church and the
Workingman."
Dec. 5-Prof. WILLIAM SALTER, "Bernard Shaw as a Social Critic."
Dec. 12-Rev. JOHN HOPKINS DENISON, ".When Is Marriage a Success?"
. Dec. 19-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Religion of the Common Life."
Dec. 26-Rev. · 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D ., "Holidays and Holy
Days."
Jan. 2-Prof. EDWARD · A. ROSS, LL.D .; "Commercialism."
Jan. 9-Rt. Rev. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, S.T.D., LL.D.,
"Has the Church Failed?"
Jan. 16-HENRY STERLING; "The Case for the Workingman."
Jan. 23-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, .Ph.D ., "Reforms and Reformers."
Jan. 30-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "The
Transition from the Present to a Co-operative Order of
Society."
Feb. 6-Dean SHAILER MATHEWS, D .D ., "Can the Modern Man be Religious?"
Feb. 13-JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN, "The Case for
the Employer."
Feb. 20-JOSEPH FELS, "The English Budget and What It
Means."
Feb. 27-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "The Hebrew
Prophets: The Creators of Modern Religion."
Mar. 6-Prof. EDvV ARD A. STEINER, "The Search for
Brotherhood."
Mar. 13-JOHN SPARGO, "The Life and Work of Karl
Marx."
1910-11-F.O URTH SEASON
Oct. 16-HENRY GEORGE, Jr., "Has the Single Tax Got
Anywhere?"
Oct. 23-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, "The Church and the
Democratic Ideal."
Oct. 30-ALFRED H. BROWN, "The Modern Drama as a
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Nov. 6-Rev. ARTHUR H. SMITH, D .D ., "When East
Mee'ts West."
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Nov. 13-Rev. GEORGE R. LUNN, D.D., "What Happened
in Schenectady."
Nov. 20-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Thr
Church and the Social Awakening."
Nov. 27- Rev. ALFRED W. WISHART, "The Spiritual Significance of Secular Vocations."
Dec. +-ALFRED SUDEKUM, Ph.D., "The Social Movement in Germany."
Dec. 11-Rev. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., "Why I Believe in
Immortality."
Dec. 18-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Man and Woman."
Dec. 25-Rev. 0. P. GIFFORD, D.D ., "The Birth of the Social
Idea."
Jan. 1-Rev. SAMUEL ZANE BATTEN, D.D., "The Man
at the Bottom."
Jan. 8-Rt. Rev. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, S.T.D., LL.D .,
"What Religion Can Do for a Man."
_Tan. 15-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D.D., LL. D.,
"Wealth-Productive, Predatory, and Parasitic."
Jan. 22-Pres. W. H . P. FAUNCE, D .D, LLD ., "Education
without Schools."
Jan. 29-Rev. HERBERT S. BIGELOW, "Stealing as a Fine
Art."
Feb. 5-Rev. THOMAS I. GASSON, S.J ., "The Dangers of
Socialism."
Feb. 12-W. E . BURGHARDT DU BOIS, Ph.D., "The World
Problem of the Color Line."
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Feb. 19-DE WITT G. WILCOX, M .D., "Health, Hygiene,
and Happiness."
Feb. 26-MEYER BLOOMFIELD, SUSAN W . FITZ GERALD, EDWIN D. MEAD, JAMES P . MUNROE, MORRISON I. SWIFT. Symposium: "What These Meetings
Have Done for Boston."
Mar. 5-Rev. JAMES A. FRANCIS, D.D., "The Get-Together Basis in Religion."
Mar. 12-J. W. BENGOUGH, "The Sacredness of Property."
Mar. 19-Mrs. -ELLEN H . RICHARDS, "Does the Increased
Cost of Living Mark a Social Advance?"
Mar. 26-Mrs. HELEN I. GRENFELL, "What Women Have
Done in Colorado with the Vote."
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Apr. 2-Rabbi MAURICE H . HARRIS, Ph.D., "The Bible
as Literature."
Apr. 9-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Social Function of the
Press."
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the Matter with the Church."
. MORRISON I. SWIFT, " What is the Matter with the People Outside the Church?"
Oct. 22-Mrs. MAUD WOOD PARK, "Woman the World
Around."
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Oct. 29-ALBERT E. WINSHIP, LL.D., "Eliminating the
Hoodlum Element Among Boys."
Nov. 5-FREDERIC C. HOWE, Ph.D., " How to Make Boston Efficient, Comfortable and Beautiful."
Nov. 12-EDWIN D. MEAD, "The United States as a World
· Power."
Nov. 19-Rev. R. J. CAMPBELL, D.D., "Social and , Economic
Conditions in England." _
Nov. 26-Pres. DAVID STARR JORDAN, LL.D., "The Case
Against War."
Dec. 3-Pres. SAMUEL C. MITCHELL, LL.D., "Racial Adjustment."
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Dec. 10-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D .D., LL.D.,
"The Church and Social Justice."
Dec. 17-Pres. W . H. P. FAUNCE, D .D., LL.D., "The Man
and the Machine."
Dec'. 2+-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The Nation's Human
Resources."
Dec. 31-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "Wanted: A
Moral Renaissance."
Jan. 7-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Significance of Insurgency."
Jan . .!+-Mrs. GLENDOWER EVANS, Miss LEONORA
O'REILLY, "The Working Woman and the State."
Jan. 21-WILLIAM T. ELLIS, LL.D., "America's Influence
Upon the Older Nations."
Jan. 28-Prof. JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP, LL.D., ''Science
and Iinmortality."
Feb. +-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D ., "The Living Wage.''
Feb. 11-HARRY PHILLIPS, "The Outlook for Temperance."
Feb. - 18-RAY STANNARD BAKER, "The Progressive Spirit
in Politics.''
Feb. 25-Dr. CHARLES FLEISCHER, "Getting to be
Human."
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Mar. 3-Rev. JAMES H. FRANKLIN, D.D., "The Message
of Christianity to Socialists."
Mar. 10-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D., "The Claim
of the Decalogue on the Modern Man.''
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Mar. 17-JAMES SCHERMERHORN, "The Ethics of ii
Newspaper Man."
Mar. 24--Mrs. EMILY MONTAGUE BISHOP, "Scenes from
the Senate."
Mar. 31-STANTON COIT, Ph.D., "Am I My Brother's
Keeper?"
Apr. 7-JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS, "The New Schism in
Socialism."
Apr. 14--De·an SHAILER MATHEWS, D.D., "Evoiution and
Religion."
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Anarchy and Socialism."
Oct. 20-Rabbi MAURICE H. HARRIS, Ph.D., "The Function of the Jew in the World's Economy."
Oct. 27-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., "Christianity and Socialism : Their Larger Parallels."
Nov. 3-ALFRED W. McCANN, "How ·shall the People Get
Pure Food?"
Nov. 10-Prof. HENRY C. VEDDER, D.D., "Concerning Law
and Order."
Nov. 17-CLIFFORD G. ROE, "The Un-Social Evil."
Nov. 24--Judge BEN B. LINDSEY, "Giving the Boy a
Square Deal.''
Dec. 1-Baroness VON SUTTNER, "International Friendship Instead of ·W ar."
Dec. 8-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The Moral Significance of the New Politics."
Dec. 15-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "The Warfare
Against Poverty."
. Dec. 22-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "How Much of the
New Order is in the Present?"
Dec. 29-Prof. CHARLES PROSPERO FAGNANI, D.D.,
"God and Democracy."
Jan. 5-Mrs. ANNA GARLIN SPENCER, "Are the Public
Schools Democratic?"
Miss FRANCES G. CURTIS and ISAAC HARRIS, "The
Local Situation."
Jan. 12-Prof. VIDA D. SCUDDER, "The Moral Asset of
the Class Struggle."
Jan. 19-'-YAMEI KIN, M.D., "The Awakening of China."
Jan. 26-JOSEPH FELS, "Just Taxation the Hope of the
vVorld."
Feb. 2-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D., "The Right and Wrong
of the Labor Union."
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9-EDWARD A. FILENE, "The Growing Pains of .Democracy."
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Feb. 16-STEWART ANDERSON, "As an Immigrant Sees
It."
Feb. 23-Birthday Night. (Special program.)
Mar. 2-Dr. J. A. MACDONALD, "War . and the Human
Breed."
Mar. 9-Prof. EARL BARNES, "A Successful Failure: A
Study of Robert Owen."
Mar. 16-Rev:. LEVI M. POvVERS, D.D., "Some Suggestions
from Germany as to Necessary Steps in Social Legislation."
Mar. 23-Rev. NICHOLAS VAN DER PYL, "Lessons from
Re.cent Industrial Outbreaks."
Mar. 30-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Social Message of
Modern English Writers."
Apr. 6-Prof. COLIN A. SCOTT, Ph.D., Miss MARY
MULRY, Miss LOTTA C. CLARK, "Training for Leaderhip."
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Free Speech."
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Oct. 26-Prof. EARL BARNES, "The Family of the Future."
Nov. 2-Miss MARY ANTIN, "The American Gospel Day
by Day."
Nov. 9-GEORGE W. HOPKINS, "Advertising and Eco- .
nomics."
GEORGE B. GALLUP, "Advertising and Democracy."
WILLIAM SHA ·w, LL.D., "Advertising arid Religion."
Nov. 16-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "What's Wrong
with the Jew?"
Nov. 23-Rev. PAUL MOORE STRAYER, D.D., "How to
Socialize a Competitive World."
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Nov. 30-PETER CLARK MACFARLANE, "The Courage to
Attack."
Dec. 7-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Modern Drama as a
Social Force."
Dec. 14--Miss MARY P. FOLLETT, "The Social Centre and
the Democratic Ideal."
JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT, Ph.D., "The Social Centre
and Direct Action."
Dec. 21-Prof. CHARLES . ZUEBLIN, "Walt Whitman:
Prophet and Democrat."
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Scientific?"
Jan. 4-Bishop JOHN W. HAMILTON, D.D., "Is It Fair?"
Jan. 11-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "A Forwa rd Step
Which Has Been Successfully Taken in Fitchburg."
Mrs. SUSAN W. FITZ GERALD, "A Fundamental Difficulty in the Way of Improving Boston's Schools."
Jan. 18-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, D.D., LL.D.,
"Why I Work for the Single Tax."
Jan. 25-Prof. ALBION W. SMALL, LL.D ., "The Strength
and Weakness of Socialism."
Feb. 1-HORACE J. BRIDGES, "The Gospel of . Ellen
Key."
Feb. 8-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, "The International
Mind and the Inter-racial Heart."
Feb. 15-HUGH CABOT, M .D., "The Problems of Sex Education."
DE WITT G. WILCOX, M.D.,
"The ·scourge of Venereal Disease."
Rev. EDWARD CUMMINGS, "The Responsibilities of
Parenthood."
Feb. -22-CHARLES BRANDON BOOTH, "The Case for the
Prisoner."
Mar. 1-LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE, "Tolstoi, the Man."
Mar. 8-Mrs. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, '-'Uncle Sam
and the Sons of Ham."
Mar. 15-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "The Challenge of Socialism to Christianity.'
Mar. 22-Rev. FRAN K 0 . HALL, D.D., "The Moral Law."
Mar. 29-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Economic Aspects
of Woman Suffrage."
Apr. 5-A. J. PHILPOTT, "The Press and Society."
GEORGE PERRY MORRI S, "Some Ethical Aspects of Editorial Work."
Apr. 12-Prof. THOMAS C. HALL, D .D., "Religion and Social Revolution."
Apr. 19-Prof . WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D.D., " Is the
Woman Movement Going to Save Society "
1914-15-EIGHTH SEASON
Oct. 18-WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING, "The Message of
Syndicalism."
Oct. 25-Miss MARY ANTIN, "God and His Worlcl."
Nov. 1-Prof. EARL BARNES, "What Work Should Give
Us Besides Bread."
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Nov. 8-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "Energy-Undirected and Misdirected."
Nov. 15-JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT, Ph.D., "The Child
and the City."
Nov. 22-LESLIE WILLIS SPRAGUE, "Will Democracy Endure?"
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Prison-'What?"
Dec. 6-STANTON COIT, Ph.D., "Is Civilization a Disease?"
Dec. 13--NORMAN HAPGOOD , "The Military Ideal."
Dec. 20-BOUCK WHITE, "Ii Christ Were to Come on
Christmas Day."
Dec. 27-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Militancy and Morals."
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Jan. 3-Rev. GEORGE A. GORDON, D .D., "A .Message for
the New Year."
Jan. 10-Rabbi HARRY LEVI, "The New Morality."
Jan. 17-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "From Absolute
Monarchy to Pure Democracy in Industry."
Jan. 24-Rev. JOHN W. ROSS, "The Credit Side."
Jan. 31-Prof. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH, D .D., "The
Economic Basis of Democracy."
Feb. 7-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D ., "Minimum Wage Laws
and Their Operation in America."
Feb. 14-LOUIS. WALLIS, "The Newer Issues in Democracy."
Feb. 21-"-S. K. RATCLIFFE, " Classes and Masses in the
England of Today."
Feb. 28-PETER WITT, "A City Finding Itself."
Mar. 7-Rabbi SAMUEL SCHULMAN, D.D ., "What Con-.
stitutes a Good Jew?"
Mar. 14-JOHN SPARGO, " Socialism and the War."
Mar. 21-Frau ROSIKA SCHWIMMER, "Women and ·war."
Mar. 28-Prof. FRANK O'HARA, "What Irish Immigration
· Has Done for America."'
Apr. 4-Prof. CHARLES PROSPERO FAGNANI, D.D .,
"The ·war, the World, and the Kingdom of God."
Apr. 11-Prof. ,HARRY F. WARD, "What Constitutes a Good
American'?"
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Oct. 17-LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, "Zionism and the Aims of
Jewish Democracy."
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Oct. 31-Hon. FRANCIS NEILSON, M.P., "Sign-Posts of De!Docracy."
Nov. 7-Rev. SAMUEL ZANE BATTEN, D.D ., "Is God or
Man to Blame?"
Nov. 14-MORRIS HILLQUIT, "Some Current Economic and
Political P roblems."
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Nov. 21-LOUIS F. POST, "Government Intervention in Idleness."
Nov. 28-JAMES P. MAGENIS, "Some Lessons Learned ·
from the Law."
Dec. 5-HENRY TURNER BAILEY, "Socializing the Public
Schools."
Dec. 12-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "Shall Birth Control Be
Di scussed?"
Dec. 19--'-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, " Conservation Versus Immigratio n."
Dec. 26-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "The United States:
Pacemaker or Peacemaker?"
Jan. 2-Rabbi MAURICE H. HARRIS, Ph.D., "America's
Exposition and Europe's War: A Contrast."
Jan. 9-HUTCHINS HAPGOOD, "What Is an Anarchist?"
Jan. 16-Rev. J. HOWARD MELISH, " Humanity First."
Jan. 23-Hon. GEORGE L. RECORD, "The High· Cost of
· Li:;,.ing: Its Cause and Remedy."
Jan. 30-S. K. RATCLIFFE, "The War and the Outlook for
Democracy."
Feb. 6-WOODS HUTCHINSON, M.D., "The Medical
Treatment of Crime."
Feb. 13-Prof. SCOTT NEARING, "Working and Owning
for a Living."
Feb. 20-ALFRED W. MARTIN, "What Are We Here
For?"
Feb. 27.-Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "Italian Immigration
After the War."
Mar. 5-Rev. WILLIAM HARMAN . VAN ALLEN, S.T.D.,
"The Discipline of Struggle."
Mar. 12-ANDRE TRIDON, "An Inside View of Mexico."
Mar. 19-ProL ARTHUR HOLMES, "What of the Backward
Child?"
Mar. 26-Mrs. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, . "What
Feminism Is-and Isn't."
Apr. 2-Rev. HE NRY F. COPE, D.D ., "The Family and the
Moral Crisis."
Apr. 9-Rev. ABRAHAM M. RIHBANY, "Some Phases of
Democracy."
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Nov.. 5-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "The International Mind."
Nov. 12-JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., "The Happiest Era in
Human History."
Nov. 19-Rev. WILLIAM NORMAN GUTHRIE, "The Problem of a New American Patriotism."
Nov. 26-ROGER W. BABSON, "Labor's Only Hope."
Dec. 3-Rev. EDWARD F. SANDERSON, "Something to
Tie to."
Dec; 10- RICHARD A. FEISS, "Personal Relationship in
Business Administration."
Dec. 17-Miss KATE BARNARD, "Woman and Destiny."
Dec. 24-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "An American Sir Galahad."
Dec~ 31-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "Making a Living
and a Life."
Jan. 7-Hon. GEORGE R. LUNN, "The Progress of Democracy."
Jan. 14-Prof. HUGH BLACK, D.D., "The Meaning of
Life."
Jan. 21-Mrs. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, "Our
Brains and What Ails Them."
Jan. 28-IVY L. LEE, "What Is to Become of Our Railroads?"
Feb. 4-Rev. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D., "Fallacies of the Feminist Movement."
Feb. 11-EDWIN MARKHAM, "The Social Vision of
Jesus."
Feb. 18-RICHARD W. HALE, "The Truth About Property:
Who ·Uses It?"
Feb. ZS-WINTER RUSSELL, "Civic ~trife or Co-operation?"
Mar. 4-GERALD STANLEY LEE, "The President and the
Fate of the World: An Inauguration Day Greeting from
Ford Hall to the White House."
Mar. 11-Rabbi H. W. ETTELSON, : "From Persecution
Through Toleration to Brotherhood."
Mar. 18-GEORGE W. NASMYTH, Ph.D., "Nietzsche and
the European War."
1917-18-ELEVENTH SEASON
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PARKER, "Initiative and Referendum."
Nov. 4-HARVEY W. WILEY, M.D., "Whiskey and Tobacco."
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Nov. n-Miss HELEN LOUISE JOHNSON, "What Thrift
Means."
Nov. 18-S. P. CHUAN, "China and America."
Nov. 25-Prof. HENRY R. PATTENGILL, "Made in
America."
Dec. 2-Rev. HAROLD MARSHALL, D.D., "Self-Sacrifice
vs. Self-Preservation."
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Dec. 9-Mrs. BERTHA KUNZ BAKER, Reading of Bjornsen's Play, "Beyond Human Might."
Dec. 16-Prof. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, D.D., "A Religion for War Time."
Dec. 23-JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., "What Is Progress?"
Dec. 30-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Federalism and
World Organization."
Jan. 6-Rev. FRED P. HAGGARD, D .D., "The New Spirit
in Russia."
Jan. 13-P. F. SULLIVAN, "What the Bay State Railway Hasto Say for Itself."
Jan. 20-FELIX SHAY, "Why Socialistic Communities Always Fail as Such."
Jan. 27-MOORFIELD STOREY, "What Law Is and Why
We Need It."
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Feb. 3-B. R. BAUMGARDT, "The Romance of Human
Progress."
Feb. 10-Lieut. BRUNO ROSELLI, " Some Lessons Learned
at the Italian Front."
Feb. 17-Miss· MARGARET SLATTERY, "American Youth
and the New Democracy."
1918-19-TWELFTH SEASON
Oct. 20-ARTHUR GLEASON, "What America Can Learn
from the British Labo r Party's Program."
Oct. 27-Miss MARY VAN KLEECK, "Women and War
Work."
Nov. 3-GEORGE W. NASMYTH, Ph.D., "The Growing .
Power of the World's Labor Forces."
Nov. 10-ALBERT RHYS WILLIAMS, "The Bolsheviks and
the Labor Problem."
Nov. 17-NORMAN THOMAS, "What Shall We Do with
Victory?"
Nov. 24-PHILIP WHITWELL WILSON, "Britain's Problems, Including Ireland and India."
Dec. 1-JOHN COWPER POWYS, "The Effect of the War
on the Democratic Ideal."
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1919-20-THIRTEENTH SEASON
Oct. 19-Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "The Present Situation in
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Italy."
Oct. 26-Prof. EARL BARNES, "Shall the State Control Our
Ideas?"
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Nov. 2-Rev. CHARLES A. EATON, D.D., "New Factors in
Business."
_Nov. 9-Rev. JOHN HOWARD MELISH; "New Morals for
Old. Sins."
Nov. 16-Dean CHARLES R. BROWN, D .D., "Why I Am
Nat · a Socialist."
Nov. 23-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "The New Motive in Industry."
Nov. 30-EVERETT DEAN MARTIN, "A Twentieth Century View of Evolution."
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Dec. 7-Judge A. C. BACKUS, "What Society Owes the
Erring."
Dec. 14-JOHN A. FITCH;, " If Not Strikes-What?"
Dec. 21-Mrs. MARGARET DELAND, "The Dull Job.".
Dec. 28-Miss JEANNETTE RANKIN, "What the NonPartisan League Has Meant to American Politics."
Jan. 4-JOSEPH ERNEST McAFEE, "ls Religion Failing in
America?"
Jan. 11-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "Whence, Why,
Whither: A Survey of the Times."
Jan; 18-ALGERNON S. CRAPSEY, S.T.D., "The Ethics of
JESUS as a Basis of the New Social Order.'
Jan. ZS-EDMUND VANCE COOKE, "The Religion of Democracy."
Feb. 1-Rt. Rev. CHARLES D .- WILLIAMS, D.D., LL.D.',
"The Challenge ·of the Times."
Feb. 8-GEORGE CREEL, "The Irish Question from the
American Viewpoint.-"
Feb. 15-Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph.D., "How to Americanize and How Not to Americanize.''
Feb. 22-Motion Picture Forum: "The Miracle Man.''
Feb. 29-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "I Go to WarAfterwards.''
Mar. 7-Rabbi . JUDAH L. MAGNES, Ph.D., "The Old
America and the New."
Mar. 14-HARLAN EUGENE READ, "Shall Inheritances Be
Abolished?"
Mar. Zl~MORRISON I. SWIFT and ROGER W. BABSON,
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"Should Socialism Be Suppressed?"
Mar. 28-Prof. EDWARD A. STEINER, "The New World:
Who Wants It and How to Get. It.''
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Oct. 17-Presidential Night. RICHARD KITCHELT, Mrs.
SUSAN W. FITZ GERALD and GEORGE E. ROEWER,
Jr., " How I Shall Vote and Why."
Oct. 24--Prof. HENRY W. L. DANA, "Labor Conditions in
England, ·France and Germany."
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Oct. 31-Prof. HARRY F. WARD, "Civil Liberty in the
United States."
Nov. i -TOYOKICHI IYENAGA, Ph.D., "Is There a Yellow Peril?"
Nov. 14--PHILIP CABOT, "The Spirit of the Employer."
WHITING WILLIAMS, "The Mind of the Worker."
Nov. 21-NORMAN HAPGOOD, "The Next Administration."
Nov. 28-Mrs. MARIETTA L. JOHNSON, "Education for
the New Age."
Dec. 5-Bishop FRAN CIS J. McCONNELL, "The Church
and Labor."
Dec. 12-W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, Ph.D ., "The Future of the Darker Races."
Dec. 19-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "What Shall We
Think of the Bolsheviki ?"
Dec .. 26-Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Has America Any
Ideals?"
Jan. 2-ARTHUR D. REES, "Financial Imperialism . and the
Way Out."
Jan. 9-Prof. NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, "The Goal of Civilization."
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Jan. 16-WALTER W. LIGGETT, "The Future of the
American Press."
Jan. 23-Mrs. BEATRICE FORBES ROBERTSON-HALE,
"The Women of the Future."
Jan. 30-Prof. DAVID D . VAUGHAN, "The World Sweep
of Democracy."
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Feb. 6-EVERETT DEAN MARTIN, "The Psychology of
the Crow d Mind."
Feb. 13-Rev. WILLARD SCOTT, D.D., "The Coming New
World."
Feb. 20-Mrs. LUCIA AMES MEAD, "The New Education."
Prof. BRUNO ROSELLI, "The Industrial Revolution in
Italy."
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Feb. 27-SCOTT NEARING, . Ph.D., "Leadership and· Democracy.''
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Mar. 13-EDWIN MARKHAM, "How to Think of the
Spiritual World."
Mar. 20-LOUIS F. POST, "Deportations."
Mar. 27-HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, Ph.D., "What
About Redeeming O\lr International Pledges?"
Apr. 3-EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS, L.H.D., "The Future of Democracy."
1921-22-FIFTEENTH SEASON
Oct. 16-Dr. ALEXANDER IRVINE, " What's Wrong with
the World?"
Oct. 23-WALTER N. POLAKOV, "Korsybski's New Law of
Life."
Oct. 30-MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Ph.D., "The Balance Sheet
of the Russian Revolution-What the Revolution Did and
What It Failed to Accomplish."·
Nov. 6-TARAKNATH DAS, "Mahatma M. K. Gandhi
and the Progress of the Non-Violent Revolutionary Movement in India."
Nov. 13-Rev. G. S. LACKLAND, Ph.D., "Where the Church
Met Labor."
Nov. 20-ROGER W. BABSON, "The Business Man's Attiture Toward Education."
Nov. 27-Col. RAYMOND ROBINS, "World Disarmament or
World Revolution-Which?" ·
Dec. 4--Dr. TEHYI HSIEH, "What China Means to the
United States."
Dec. 11-Rev. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, "Our Growing
Distrust of Democracy: Is It Justified?"
Dec. 18-CHARLES KROLL, "From Socialism to Businessand the Consequences."
Dec. ZS-CHARLES ZUEBLIN, "Education for Freedom."
Jan. 1-HOMER B. HULBERT, F.R.G.S., "A Yank in the
Far East."
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Jan. 8-WHITING WILLIAMS, "Bayonets, . Bolshevism and
My .Buddies."
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Jan. 15-Miss MARGARET SLATTERY, "The Power of
Prejudice."
Jan. 22-EVERTT DEAN MARTIN, "The Idolatry of
Public Opinion."
Jan. z9_:_GLENN E. PLUMB, "Industrial Democracy."
Feb. 5-Rabbi LOUIS WOLSEY, "The Jewishness of Jesus."
Feb. 12-WILLIAM PICKENS, LL.D., "A Common Platform
for White and Black." ·
Feb. 19-Rev. JOHN A. RY AN,, D.D., "Is Labor Gaining or
Losing ?"
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