Lecture by Mr. Shepard.

At the invitation of the University. Mr. Edward M. Shepard, of New York, will speak in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, on "The Puritan and the Government" of the Modern American City." Mr. Shepard graduated from the College of the City of New York in the class of 1869. From 1883 to 1885 he was a civil service commissioner of Brooklyn and was chairman of the civil service committee of that city from 1888 to 1890. During the year 1884 to 1885 he was a member of the New York State Forestry Commission. Mr. Shepard is a prominent lawyer and an active Democrat. In the municipal elections in the fall of 1901 he was against and was defeated by Mr. Seth Low h. '90, for the mayoralty of New York City. He is a director in numerous railways and other corporations and is the author of two books. "The Memoirs of Dugdale," and "Martin Van Buren," in the American Statesmen Series.

The lecture will be open to the public.