New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-16


FEAST PROVIDED FOR THE THOUSANDS
OF MEMBERs-A TRULY CATHOLIC Poll
ICY PURsUED-wHAT CAN BE HAD
FOR THE SMALL INVESTMENT OF 81.
The Brooklyn Institute OF Arts ana Sc,enoes -
nothing short OF phenomenal in the quai'S anu
ouantitv OF matter which II provides TOT the IL"
ctruc,ion and entertainment of its numerous pa
,rors The motto of it's enterprising and eihcient
director Professor Franklin W. Hooper must oe
"Excelsor" or some other word or words 10 tle
same effect In previous years he mas IN con
function with the various heads OF departments ar
ranged programmes that were varied. interesting
and attractive, but this year 1t may truthlui'E oe
said that he has outdone himself
The Institute season will open on Monday OCTOBER
I and will extend 10 the first week IN june lo'''
During the intervening thirty-four weeks inc NUM-
her of anniversary addresses. lectures exhiDi''ohs
and department meetings open to every menlpei %
the Institute will be about 400. arranged as near!
90 oractcahle so that one will be held on eac2
afternoon and one on each evening with the eN-
ception OF Sunday. Membership IN the lns'i'u'e
costs only s. year, except in the case % nc"
members who must pay an initiation zee ol % HI
addition Probably in no other institution III 'ne
country can so much be obtained for so small an
expenditure 49, Co.
The first edition Of the Institute Prospectus lot
the coming season has just been Issued pealiHs
date September TO- and will be ready for distriou-
tion Tomorrow 1t is incomplete In some respseS.s
and viii be subjected to revision at an early date
The Institute has been remarkably "a y q
securing lectures and Professor Hooper 81! .
that in only two instances have persons invited 10
lecture this year declined to do so one OF mos I sJ
declined was Or Edward Esgleston one OF inc mos s
popular lecturers in the Institute courses curing e
last two years. When he completed ms pat tbsre
would not be the slightest doubt about ms sNdne
another course in the coming @ 80 compel him to
foreeo all lecturng this year ms VIII De d r;an6s
of deep regret to DR.. Eggestons numerous '''''''
The institute has membership OF c6 aDGns
o. s.,f a The number already made IS
about large that during the fng n1rospect
that this year will an increase OF l'VVV III ''e
membership.
THE ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS.
Tho number of anniversary meetings arranged by
the Institute this year is not so large as II mas W
in some previous years but the quality has never
49, s,rnassad The truly catholic basis on which
.h. Ins,ute is conducted is eXemplifed IN the TACT
that for one of these meetings the Leading fro'sS
tant minister of the country has been secureu ~ w
liver the address, and at another one Oh 'ie io''
most Roman Catholic clergyman. Inc i","e
meeting of the Institute will be held on MoI.idS
evening October l. when s. ID. Mccormick OF heh-
lucky will deliver an address on Inc tha''. VI o..
Enoch or the Union of the Blue ana t"e "'"'
Mr. Mccormick was officer IN the OohIe'oia'
Army and has represented one OF the hen'uohs
,nusuaI attractiyeness 1t is the expectation 'id'
aro,ber Confederate general and one or two proml-
mont officers on the Union side VIII make pIIei "u
dresses on this OCCASION which VIII ssho" inc I'm
federate side at its best, and at the same 'lie
that the results of the are fully accepted IN 'e
South. ,,.,, -,
The one bundredth anniversary Of the plr'h Oh
William Cullen Bryant will be celebrated on NoV Zen,
Der 8, when Parke Goodwin brgahIl 6p Holmes
will deliver Grafton. The Venerapie ~, o,n 70 he
has been invited TO write an annveisaiSS pr he viii
ne able 70 do this but at rate it is believed that
he will send a letter. hymn 10 be sung a , ov II
Eybladwick who was one of the speakers at the re-
cent BRYANT celebration at CummnGton MaS: oolo
Weshinptor's Birthday is always specially celc-
bra,e5 by the institute The most notable aadresses
of the last few years have been az no 0 exception
f1r Richari s Storrs has been invited TO De tne
orator YIN d9u9,e's iRsa Dr. storrs
deeply Interested in the Institute oil "h'ch "e " INV
Al the Closing Of the HsttGts for 'h 6f
year. on May - an azores G Oh Tonvctions OF
Men will be by Bishop John HeaH Rsb 3np
head of the Catholic University OF SSfore NTH
Keane has addressed institute "uu''o'
great acceptaolIl'!'
GENERAL COURSES OF LECTURES
Among the general courses of lectures the fore
most place is given TO one on The Founders OF
New-England" The eight lectures VIII De az io'-
lows: November p. "Willam Brewster the hluer
~ plymouth" Edward Everett Hale; December u
,ho Rev DR. William Elliott Grifis. of Ithaca
December 49, John Winthrop the Governor OF
Massachusetts" Frederic 7. Greenhalge, Governor
of Massachusetts,; January 2 "John Harvard anu
tho Founding OF Harvard College. WiiilaHi H.
rhaver of Harvard; January g. John Eliot, the
Anostle 10 the Indians" the Rev James lie Nor
mande; January o. John Cotton, the Minister Oh
BOSTON" the Rev. John Cotton BROOKS deScehu-
an, of the subject of the lecture January 80 roger
Williams the Founder OF Rhode Island PRESIDENT
Andrews Of Brown University fepruais ID,
.rbomas Hooker the Founder of Connecticut
~ pew DR. Joseph H. Twitchell, OF Hartford
rh,s course is also to be given in the Old South
Meeting House in Boston
Professor Hooper attaches special Importance to
series of lectures the literature ana rehgloh OF
India. to be given by T. w. Rhys Davids' ILL., D'
professor of Sanscrit literature In University COL
loo Iondon Professor Davids is high authority
on this subject his lectures will also be given at
the Lowell Institute, Boston, Columbia college, me
University of Pennsylvania, the PEABODY INSTITUTE
baltimore; Cornell University and Brown Oni|er-
sitv The course in Brooklyn will be given IN Jan
nary and the early part Of February. Inc SUBJECTS
orc az follows: THE Religious Teachers Of India,
and Their Influence on India and in the west
.The Buddhist Books and Their History the VEGAS
az Literature" The Life OF the Buddha' Inc
puddhists' Secret" and THE Ideal OF the Later
Buddhism. ,
An authors course of addresses on American
literature will be certain attract favorable aten-
ton On February 20 Mrs. Julia Ward howe WIZ
sneak on patriotism in American Literature, ana
her famous Battle Hymn will be sung; on fepru-
orv 81 Professor John Fiske will speak OF Amer,
tcs.s His,orians and Their Work.; March g. EdmuM1
Clarence sedman on American Rama pcey in American
Eic,ion': March o. Mrs Kate Dougas Wiggn;; OF
"Amer,can Magazine Literature, and on Apru :"
Mrs Frances HodgsOn Burnett mas Deen h''eu ~
speak OF "Childrens Literature. ..a,u crohor,
The founder OF the Institute Augustus Irahain
,,roviaad ina, courses OF lectures shouid De gwen
from time to time The Power. W. Wisd %rL ana
condness Of God as Manifested in His WORKS
Professor Hooper himself will give the lectures
under this head the corning year sPeakng N gen,
rai on the evolution of the earth FIVE lectures are
manned Tor but 1; possible that the number may
he reduced 10 four. The special topics are; The
ogicai History" tine Formation of the Continents
and Ocean Areas: the Beginnings OF Lie ne
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