The Hilda Stitch Stroock lecturer at the Jewish Institute of Religion for this year will be Professor H. St. John Thackeray of Oxford University. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Institute announced. Professor Thackeray’s lectures will be given in March, the subject to be announced later. Further announcement was made that the inaugural address of the sixth year of the Institute will be given on the evening of October 13, by the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, whose theme is to be “Religion’s Chief Enemy — Cynicism.” It is to be given before the faculty and students at the Institute.
Professor George Foot Moore, author of the extensive study of Judaism, of Harvard, who was to have been the 1928 lecturer under the Hilda Stitch Stroock Lectureship at the Institute, was compelled, because of ill-health, to can-cell his acceptance of the invitation. Last year the lectureship was held by the late Professor Hugo Gressman of Berlin University, whose subject was “Israel and the Tower of Babel.”
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