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President Arthur Twining Hadley h.'99, of Yale University, will speak this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union on "Opportunities for Political Influence." President Hadley graduated from Yale with the class of 1876. After spending three years in study at the University of Berlin, he became tutor at Yale; and in 1883 he was appointed Lecturer. He became Commissioner of Statistics for Connecticut in 1885, and a year later was appointed Professor of Political Science at Yale. He was elected President of Yale in 1899. President Hadley was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Harvard in 1899, by Columbia in 1900, and by Johns Hopkins University in 1902. He was American editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica in its tenth edition, and is the author of "Economics," "The Education of the American Citizen," and "An Account of the Relations Between Private Property and Public Welfare."
The lecture will be open to members of the Union only, and they will be required to show their membership tickets upon entering the Club.
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