PRESIDENT HIBBEN WILL LECTURE HERE

President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University has accepted Harvard's invitation and will deliver the Godkin lectures here in April, it was announced last night. President Hibben's acceptance, makes it clear that the scholastic good will existent between the two universities is in no way affected by the break in athletic relations. President Hibben will lecture on Tuesday, April 26, and Thursday, April 28.

The Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by the friends of E. L. Godkin, founder and for many years editor of the "Nation", as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The income of the fund is devoted to the delivery and publication of annual lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen", or upon some part of that subject.

Bryce First Lectured

The first Godkin lectures were delivered in 1904 by the Right Honorable James Bryce, and these lectures served as a basis for his "Modern Democracies" President Eliot delivered the lectures in 1907-08, and among subsequent Godkin lecturers were Professor Josef Redlich, formerly of the University of Vienna, now on the staff of the Harvard Law School, and Leon Dupriez of Louvain University, Belgium.

President Hibben is a noted lecturer and the author of numerous philosophic and political works. His "Problems of Philosophy" and "The Higher Patriotism" are his most widely known works. He is also the editor of "The Epochs of Philosophy" in 12 volumes by authors in the United States and Great Britain In his lectures President Hibben will probably deal with the philosophy of government.