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Captain Ian Hay Beith, the British soldier who fought in France early in the war, and recorded his impressions and experiences in "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students at the University on Sunday, November 11. The meeting, which will be held in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock, is the second of a series under the auspices of the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society, and will be open exclusively to men in the law and graduate schools.
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion to a captaincy, the commission he now holds.
Last year Captain Beith was granted a furlough by the British War Office, and spent the time lecturing in this country. During the winter he addressed audiences twice at the University, in Sanders Theatre and the Union, in addition to speeches delivered at Yale, and Princeton. At the time of the Allied Bazaar in Boston, he was in partial charge of the British military exhibits. Since last year, Ian Hay has once more visited the trenches, and comes to America with a wealth of new material for his speeches
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