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and thought of the day to individual attitude 

 and social policy is our aim in the founda- 

 tion of these lectures. Such light may come 

 through a recent discovery in natural or ap- 

 plied science, through a new tendency in art, 

 literature, or music; it may be the result of 

 some painstaking research in history or an- 

 thropology ; or it may be found in some vital 

 movement, religious, philosophic, economic, or 

 political. It is our wish that men and women 

 who are in the position of leaders in such 

 phases of the life of the day shall give to 

 Amherst College and the world an exposition 

 of their particular work in its relation to what 

 they conceive to be a modern outlook. 



We give these lectures in memory of Wil- 

 liam Brewster Clark, M.D., who graduated 

 from Amherst in the class of 1876. We be- 

 lieve that no place for a memorial to him 

 could be more fitting than the college which 

 he loved with a devotion characteristically 

 rich and sincere, nor any form more suitable 

 than lectures on subjects which to him would 

 be most absorbing. 



FANNY H. CLARK, 

 W. EVANS CLARK. 



NEW YORK CITY, 11 March, 1913. 



