FINLEY AND FICKE TO SPEAK BEFORE P.B.K.

The annual exercises of the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa society this spring will be featured by the appearance of John Huston Finley and Arthur Davison Ficke '04, as the principal speakers at the ceremonies. Mr. Finley will be the Orator and Mr. Ficke has been named Poet for the occasion.

To Take Place At Sanders

The exercises, which mark the admittance of the Senior members of the chapter who are elected on Commencement Day, will take place in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Finley, whose son, J. H. Finley '25, is at present a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, has been eminent in education and journalism since his graduation from Knox College in 1897. He has held at various times the positions of editor of Harpers Weekly, president of Knox College, president of the College of the City of New York, professor of social science at Princeton, and editor of the New York Times, the last of which he now holds. In 1910 he was the Harvard University Exchange Professor on the Hyde Foundation at the Sorbonne, in Paris. He was at the head of the Red Cross in Palestine and the Near East during the war. He has written many books, and holds honorary titles from Japan, France, Italy, Serbia, and Poland.

Ficke is Noted Lawyer

Mr. Ficke, who will deliver the annual poem, is an author and lawyer of note. After his graduation from the University, he studied law at the University of lowa and was admitted to the bar in 1908. Since then, his main activity has been in writing, having published several volumes of verse. He served with distinction in the war, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.