Communication

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

When one glances at the telegram reproduced on the cover of the current "Harper's Weekly" and reads the eulogy within, he realizes that these have to do with no ordinary man. If a tribute on the cover of a magazine in a shop-window can attract and impress the passersby, what sort of interest should the man himself arouse? Now the man honored by President Wilson's telegram is in our midst, and yet few men seem aware of it. Or is it Harvard provincialism cropping out again, when one of the foremost citizens of the world, a statesman to whom our President offered the ambassadorship to the new Chinese Republic, draws only a fragment of the student body to his lectures?

John R. Mott penetrated the student classes in Europe, Asia and Africa, and built up Christian movements there. He is the recognized leader of religious work among students in this country. With this glorious lifework as the background for his subject he comes to address us. But his subject aside, Dr. Mott has a personality that stimulates, and an understanding of life that unveils many of its mysteries.

The Hyde Lectures are meant for all of us this year. C. H. SMITH '15.