HANKS WILL BEGIN SERIES OF FOUR LECTURES ON AIRPORTS

"International Airports as Ports of Entry" will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by S. S. Hanks '12, in Pierce Hall, Harvard Engineering School, at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. This will be the first of a series of four lectures by Hanks on airport problems of design, construction, and management for the engineer, architect, and business executive. They will be illustrated with slides and films.

On the following Tuesday afternoons in March, Hanks will deliver the remaining three lectures. In the second lecture in the series he will have for his subject. "The Flying Boat"; in the third he will discuss "American Airports. Present and Future": and in the last he will present a summary and general discussion.

Hanks was formerly in the Department of State Washington, has been an airplane pilot since August, 1916, and served as aide to the chief signal officer of the Army during the World War. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Corps Reserve and the author of "International Airports."