The Aristotelian Society of Marquette Uni-
versity each year invites a scholar to speak
on the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
These lectures have come to be called the
Aquinas Lectures and are customarily deliv-
ered on the Sunday nearest March 7, the feast
day of the Society's patron saint.

For the year 1945, the Society has the
pleasure of publishing the lecture by Edward
Kennard Rand, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., Pope
Professor of Latin emeritus, Harvard Uni-
versity.

Professor Rand was born in Boston, Mass.,
in 1871 and graduated from Harvard Univer-
sity in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts summa cum laude. He obtained his Mas-
ter's degree the next year and spent the fol-
lowing years in study at the Harvard Divinity
School and at the Episcopal Theological Sem-
inary (in Cambridge, Mass.) and as an In-
structor in Latin at the University of Chicago.
After a year of study at the University of
Munich, from which he received the degree

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