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90 CORNELL UNIVERSITY REGISTER
i_*!ei_tS' ^?T^: Some aspects of recent social, economic, and political condi
tions, especially in Great Britain.
Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong: The passing of the old West
iSS*^8 CathT?Tine Karolyi: Social life in Hungary before and during the war.
Abb< Ernest Dimnet: How does the modern school of French writers react
to the influence of Anatole France?
Professor F. M. Powicke of the University of Manchester: Rome and the
Modern State; The north of England in the twelfth century.
Carl E. Akeley of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City:
Gorillas and volcanoes of Kivu.
Thomas A. Daly: Poets, wild and tame.
Gertrude Emerson, Associate Editor of Asia: Angkor, the lost city of the Khmer
Kings in Cambodia.
Max Montor, formerly Director of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre: A recital
in German of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise."
Professor Oskar Hagen of the University of Goettingen: The art of Rembrandt;
Boecklin, as landscape painter; Modern stagecraft and its antecedents.
Dr. Samuel N. Harper, Associate Professor in the University of Chicago: The
Communist experiment in Soviet Russia.
Colonel Edward Davis, U. S. Army: General Allenby's campaign in Palestine
and Syria.
Professor William R. Halliday of the University of Liverpool: Travel and
communication in the second century A. D.
Professor Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin: The psychology of
superstition.
Mme. Mirza Ali Kuli Khan: The Persia of today.
Dr. Lauro De Bosis, Royal University of Rome: The new literary movements
in Italy.
E. F. Carritt, Lecturer in University College, Oxford: Modern views on aes
thetics.
Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, Professor in the University of Berlin: The mentality
of apes.
THE FRANK IRVINE LECTURESHIP
The Conkling Chapter of the law school fraternity of Phi Delta
Phi in 1 9 13 created and gave to Cornell University a fund for the
endowment of a series of annual lectures in the College of Law, to be
known as The Frank Irvine Lectures in honor of Judge Irvine, who
was then dean of the college. The income of this fund has been regu
larly used to provide at least one lecture annually before the faculty
and students of the college by men eminent in the theory or practice
of the profession.
The Frank Irvine Lecturer in 1924-25 was the Hon. Robert Von Moschzisker,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and his subject was: Dangers
in disregarding fundamental conceptions when amending the Federal Constitu
tion.
THE JACOB H. SCHIFF FOUNDATION
The late Jacob H. Schiff of New York in 191 2 gave the University
$100,000 to be "The Jacob H. Schiff Endowment for the Promotion
of Studies in German Culture,"
making the Board of Trustees free
"to use the income either for salaries or for other purposes within the
endowment."
designation of the
In 1918 the Board, acting upon Mr.
Schiff's suggestion and with his approval, extended the field of the
endowment and accordingly changed its name to "The Jacob H.