MACKENZIE TO GIVE INGERSOLL LECTURE

The Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man will be delivered this year by William Douglas MacKenzie, theologian, author, and lecturer, it was learned last night. Dr. MacKenzie who is president of the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut, will speak in Emerson Hall in the latter part of April.

The Ingersoll Lectureship was established in 1894 by Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who left funds for the establishment of an annual lecture on the subject of the Immortality of Man. The lectureship is awarded by the Corporation in accordance with the express wish of the donor that it should not be made a part of the regular curriculum offered by the University, and should not be delivered by any professor or tutor in his usual routine of instruction. The choice of the lecturer is not limited to any one religious denomination or to any profession.

Dr. MacKenzie who will give the lecture this year was a professor at the Chicago Theological Seminary from 1895 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been president of the Hartford Seminary and professor of Systematic Theology. He has written several important books on theological subjects including "Christianity and the Progress of Man," "The Final Faith," and "Christian Ethics in the World War." He has also written several books about missionary work in South Africa where he was born, the son of a missionary. He is a constant contributor to religious and philosophical periodicals.

Last year the lecture was given by Dr. E. W. Lyman, professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.