M. Millet Gives Hyde Lecture

Yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre M. Rene Millet delivered the first of the series of Hyde lectures. His subject was "Coup d'Oeil sur l'Histoire de la Mediterranee. L'Unite du Monde Antique." Professor William James introduced the speaker.

M. Millet contrasted ancient Europe, where nations considered that their task was merely to take possession of unoccupied lands, or to give the world their own civilization, with the world today, where there is no longer any unoccupied space, and where we are ever in the presence of original and refractory civilizations which cannot and will not be modified. This problem, said M. Millet, brings us back to the history of the Mediterranean when Egypt and Assyria 2500 years ago found themselves in the presence of the forming European societies. Finally M. Millet discussed the more important races of this region--the Phcenicians, which brought about an evocation of the great Carthage, and the Greeks who were responsible for the rapid diffusion of Hellenic culture.

The second lecture of the series on "Rupture de l'unite. Le Christianisme et l'Islam" will take place in the same place tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock.