New-York tribune., 1884-10-02
.yOUNS HOphINS rNIDERSf7Y y.

ffrpY Of suAKIsrEAHi-stH WILLIAM 1uoM'"Ns
LroiuErs.
frpou Az occufovAL coGRisroNpENT Op rir THigrNr.l
NnTiuonI. Sept 3O.-Ihc academic year of
ls-i'-5 at Johns Iiopdna unycrlty began to-day.
I,,uii, nton4 for admission began nst week
Tuefdd Most Of the professors and tutors ANA many "i
the graduate students last week already back IN
Dlitlm,ur preparing for their working season. de
.ided increase IN attendance IL expected this year over
last Several Of the gentlemen who took their docoIairs
last June will instructors this winter IN various
departments hut the completed stan 0i helpers has NOT
yG been declared
one Of the most interesting announcements recently
made i. that Mr. Edmund Gossc Of London Professor OF
English Literature In the University of Comhrdse. has
been engaged give Il OF six lectures on English
Literature from the time OF Shakespeare To the time o
Pope and the and history of the change from She
Romantic 10 the Classic school IN English poetry III the
seventeenth century. By special request he will also
give tw0 lectures the poet Gray. TO whose life ana
writings he has lately given special attention These
eight lectures will all be given during The month Of Jan
nary There was early last summer rlmor
that Mr. GosSe To he offered the Literary
chair n, Johns Hopkins but since the Cambridge proes
sorsip was already his disposal there could hardly
have been anything in the story Mr.. Gosse will find
himself very much a; home in Baltimore, where some o
his old friends live, and highly valuable series oi lee
lures that ought TO draw an attendance from elsewhere
can be expected.
connection with Mr.. trOSSc lectures, anu iiusid'
ing stl further the departure of Johns Hopkins this
x,ar-thc effort 10 give unusual facilities Tor literary
frainjug--specia Shakespearcan courses are an
nonnccd In January and February Professor Hiram
Corson Of Cornell. viii give twenty lectures
nm ten or more pays of the poets early middle ana ate
workmanship indicating his growth OF power sha pro
rress in Characterization, ana contrasting MS
,nncthod. with those of Ben Jonson, or Greene
TceLe Mrslowe and other dranlatists OF the period
rlr announcement also made that lectures by mStn
shp scholars will be given t0 rouhd up
nd give definite shape To the literary lecture sesSOn no
italian sources his plays the pronunciation III ms uay
III sricucr his folk his classical lore the latest views
- german student and similar topics may hc expected To
fud mace in the fall announcement not yet mace puDhc
THE lectures of the past few years a Johns Hopkis ON
CHANGER on Early English, on the Draiatlsts before
espcarc 10 have led up, naturally ana oen
pely 10 this shake speaiean course , ,. -,
The fun arrangements as now maze Tor inc e'tuIcs
Sir William Thomson upon Molecular Dynanics are mat
she nrsl one will delivered IN one OF the InlNttSy
halls TO- morrow at o'clock H., ana that me o,heie
f the course OF eighteen will follow on CONSECUTIVE uay
except sunday the same hour As one OF tne o,s
guished Of living scientists Sir Wiain thomson
Views I'm these lectures 10 he delivered nowhere tlse III
the United States will doubtless attract attention anu
sccurc large Attendance Of students ana professors Ho
other institutions.