Before very long Mr. Stanley will lecture in Boston. He is not an ordinary lecturer nor yet a man who will attract people merely on account of his remarkable personality. He has more than all a vast amount of new learning to add to the wealth of the world; this being so, it has seemed not out of place for us to suggest that Harvard invite the noted traveller to deliver his lecture under the auspices of the University in Cambridge, so that we, as students, may hear the lessons he teaches. It is no small honor for any man to be asked to speak before the students of the great American University, and, moreover, Mr. Stanley has placed himself under obligations to the college by inviting its distinguished men to add weight to his lecture by their presence near him. Mr. Stanley has already spoken to students of other American Universities; he would appreciate the full meaning of such a request from Harvard.
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