Glenn Frank: of Northwestern University

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Glenn Frank 
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 Northwestern University





GLENN FRANK



M
R. FRANK strikes a definite issue in every production as a writer or speaker.  The public demands three things of the man who addresses it—that he be deeply interested in his subject, accurately informed about it, and able to talk about it in an interesting way.  This criterion is met in Mr. Frank's lectures.  Every one of 
The Modern Problem Lectures
 deals with a vital issue.  They represent the scholarship of the study in the language of the man of the street.  Mr. Frank's writings and lectures revolve about three big interests — Economics, Religion and Literature.  In his hands these problems become invested with a fascination and are shot through with human interest.  Mr. Frank's popular treatment of these problems is marked by keen analysis, deftness of illustration, subtle humor, rare charm of diction, and singular clearness of exposition.  His lectures possess the sincerity and vitality which come of a careful study of the problem.  Mr. Frank is by nature and training a clear-visioned representative of Modernism as it is voiced in the intellectual and industrial life of our country.  There is something happening every minute from the time Mr. Frank steps on the platform to the end; he marshals his march of facts without a wasted word or action.  For five years on the Chautauqua platforms of the middle west he has demonstrated that the crowd is hungry for straight-from-the-shoulder treatment of the serious problems of our Industrial and Ethical life.  He takes subjects that most lectures avoid as they would a pestilence, and builds about them lectures that have made an enviable record of popularity.  He has a pleasing voice, sincerity of manner and a personality that instantly gains the heart of an audience.






SUBJECTS OF DEEPEST IMPORTANCE!  SOUND SCHOLARSHIP!  FRESH AND ENGAGING TREATMENT!






The Modern Problem Lectures



MORALS AND MACHINERY A study of a Public Age with a Private Conscience


WHERE THE TRAIL DIVIDES A study of Three Crisis-points in our Society


THE CLASH OF COLOR A study of the Negro in a Democracy








Literature and Modern Life


A Series of Addresses







(1)

George Bernard Shaw


Disillusionist in a Deluded Age



(2)

Maurice Maeterlinck


Mystic in a Materialistic Age



(3)

Gilbert K. Chesterton


Believer in a Doubting Age



(4)

Henrik Johan Ibsen


Individualist in a Socialistic Age



(5)

Leo N. Tolstoi


Puritan in a Self-indulgent Age








Religion and Modern Life


A Series of Addresses






(1)


The Modern Man and the Bible

Does it mean more or less to him than to his father?


(2)


The Modern Man and the Church

Is it a burden or a boon to his busy life?


(3)


The Modern Man and the Creed

Is it the creator or the creation of religion?


(4)


The Modern Man and the World

Shall he run away from it or get into it?


(5)


The Modern Man and His Religion

What does he emphasize and what does he ignore?






Note
—The two series of addresses are the by-product of two books which are soon to come from the press—one on 
Religion and Modern Life
 the other on 
Literature and Modern Life
.  These lectures were built especially for Clubs and Chautauquas desiring a series of connected studies.






The Modern Problem Lectures



If it is true that the South is the home of sentiment, romance and oratory, Mr. Frank should never have been born in the North.—


Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee
.




I am delighted with your program of subjects.  In your fresh and engaging treatment of those great themes you will give the people their money's worth.—

Henry Augustus Buchtel, Chancellor of the University of Denver; Governor of Colorado 1907-1909
.




In his lecture on 
Morals and Machinery
 Mr. Frank stirred the social conscience in a way never heard before in this section.  Mr. Frank has a ringing message that will be heard the country through before he is done with it.—


Press Report from Huron, South Dakota
.




Mr. Frank is a gifted lecture who holds his audiences from the beginning to the end, no matter how long he speaks.  No man has been to Kirksville, for years at least, who has been so popular with the masses, and none have commanded such a wide hearing.  He is brilliant and versatile.  As a speaker he is remarkably gifted; has a clear, incisive way of putting truth, which cannot but impress the hearer.  He is eloquently persuasive, using the best of English and striking phrases.  His addresses show marks of close thought and sound reasoning.  He is always fresh, logical, and convincing.  He has an unusual fund of knowledge, showing a wide acquaintance with history and literature.—


Press Report from Kirksville, Missouri
.




For penetrating thought, fine diction and charming delivery he is without doubt the coming lecturer of America.
—
Dr. H. W. Sears
.




Probably the most popular, and certainly the most profitable feature of the nineteen hundred eleven Chautauqua, was the series of lectures on 
Religion and Modern Life
 by Glenn Frank.  They drew big audiences and were the center of discussion on the grounds.  In the course of the assembly he also lectured on 
The Clash of Color
 in a masterful way, and substituted for Senator Bristow, to the entire satisfaction of the audience.  He, together with George R. Stuart and Gov. Buchtel were voted the three most popular features of the Chautauqua Assembly.—


Press Report from Hamilton, Missouri
.




Glenn Frank, the lecturer who appeared yesterday afternoon at the auditorium, made a bigger hit than any other lecturer who has appeared here this session.  Mr. Frank is probably the youngest lecturer who has ever appeared in Beloit.  
Mr. Frank is the personification of fight and aggressiveness, against the social evils of today, and his enthusiasm is contagious, he can pass on his fighting spirit, and above all he can drive home his arguments and clinch them in a most convincing way
.—


Press Report from Beloit, Kansas
.




His lectures represent the best of modern scholarship, and at the same time, are put in such popular form that the man on the street thoroughly enjoys them.  The very wording of his subjects is suggestive of fresh and stirring things.  In his lectures on 
Religion and Modern Life
 his point of view is thoroughly modern, and yet so harmonious with all that old fashioned people really care for in religion, that he greatly helps them, and at the same time gains the assent of the most modern man.  Mr. Frank is an unusual man.  He is an unusually young man to have gained such a grip on the fundamental problems of the time.  His unassuming and genial manner, and the good sense and good taste with which he does his work won a large place in the esteem of the people of this city.—


Press Report from Huron, South Dakota
.




Mr. Frank is a young man of remarkable ability.  His life history is so extraordinary as to have special interest.  He belongs to an old American family which migrated from Virginia to Kentucky and later to Missouri as did many of the Old Dominion colonists.  Not altogether from necessity but partly because of an independent spirit he began to make his way in the world at the age of thirteen.  After working his way through a college or two he became a young man of superior refinement, fine culture, remarkable learning and extraordinary eloquence.  His vocabulary is large.  The range of subjects upon which he is accurately informed is extremely wide.  He is a good deal of a poet in his mental make-up which gives him a great polish of diction and refinement of manner.  This is the middle aged man in a very young body who speaks to the big audiences in the Armory.—


The Daily News, Springfield, Illinois
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