RELIGIOUS FIGURES OF JAPAN

Professor Masaham Anesaki, professor of Japanese Literature and Life, will deliver the first of his series of lectures on "Representative Figures in the Religious History of Japan" this afternoon in Emerson D at 4.30 o'clock. The subject will be "The Introduction of Buddhism and the Buddhist Statesmanship of Prince Shotoku."

These lectures will be open to the public. The three other lectures which will complete the series will be held on the next three successive Wednesdays at the same time and place. The subject will be: March 17--"A Social Catastrophe and the work of a Pietist Saint"; March 24--"The Mongol Invasion and a prophet of Japanese Buddhism"; March 31--"Religious Movements in Modern Japan."