Annual Series of Godkin Lectures

The Godkin lectures for the current year will be given by Arthur George Sedgwick '64, of New York, on "Some Unsettled Questions Relating to Popular Government." The dates and the special subjects are as follows: March 29--"The Operation of Government"; March 31--"The Principle of Responsibility"; April 2--"The Democratic Mistake"; April 5--"Patronage and Popular Government"; April 7--"The Suffrage"; April 8--"Limitations." The lectures will all be given in Emerson D at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public.

Arthur George Sedgwick was born in 1844 and entered Harvard in 1860. On his graduation in 1864 he entered the Union army. After a short period of service he was forced to retire from the army on account of ill health and he entered the Harvard Law School in 1867. After his graduation from the Law School he practiced law in Boston and with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 edited the American Law Review. In 1875 Mr. Sedgwick moved to New York and was admitted to the bar there. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and of the Nation and has besides written several treatises on law.