The Dudleian Lectures.

In 1750 Judge Paul Dudley left Harvard a sum of money to provide for an annual lecture on four given subjects, to be taken in turn. The lecture this year was to be "for the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abomnible superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places," as expressed in Judge Dudley's will.

Although a lecture on this subject has been delineated at Harvard twenty-five times, the opinion of many of the faculty is in favor of discontinuing such a manifestly sectarian lecture, and on this account they will send in a petition to the President and Fellows to have it stopped. The matter is now under discussion and it will be three or four days before it is finally settled.