Prof. F. K. Sanders, of Yale University.
President J. G. Schurman, of Cornell University.
For its first course the Committee selected as lecturer Prof. T. W. Rhys Davids, Ph.D. LL.D., of London, England, who delivered a course of lectures in the winter of 1894-95 on The History and Literature of Buddhism, at the following places, with the co-operation of the institutions named:
Baltimore, before the Johns Hopkins University.
Boston, at the Lowell Institute.
Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Institute.
Ithaca, before the Cornell University.
New York, before the Columbia University.
Philadelphia, before the University of Pennsylvania Lecture Association.