RUSSELL COMES TO UNION TO LECTURE

Mr Bertrand Russell, world-famous English mathematician, philosopher, and liberal, whose views on education and social problems have so stirred this country and England since the War, Will speak this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Union on "Freedom vs. Authority in Education".

Mr Russell's subject this evening is peculiarly fitting due to his recent attack on trustee-controlled American colleges, which brought forth a reply from President Lowell and his presence as a liberal speaker, the first since the recent controversy between the Undergraduate Committee and Governing Boards, is of more than ordinary interest.

Bertrand Russell first became known as the foremost of symbolic logicians, but during the war he was so attracted by human miseries that he devoted his time to attempting to think out a way to which mankind could save itself from destruction.

Expression of his thoughts at this time led to his imprisonment and dismissal from his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. To quote however, Prof. Ralph Barton Perry-"He is respected by oppoments and followers alike as possessing one of the genuinely distinguished and brilliant philosophic minds of the day"-and immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose.