New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
LECTURERS ANNUAL FEAST.
THIS YEARS DINNER IN HONOR OF
DR. LEIPZIGER.
ADDRESSES BY THE GUEST OF HONOR CHAN
1u-I1 az, MAcc.n AcKEN AID OTHERS.

ADDRESSES BY THE GUEST OF HONOR. CHAN
o.EL1oR MAccRAcKEN AND OTHERS.
The pleasing custom that is followed by the
lecturers in the New-York free lecture courses OF
marking the end Of each seasons labors by din
ner was observed last night at the Windsor Hotei
FOR the seventh time Added Importance attached
TO this years dinner. nasmuch as IL was especiay
in honor OF Dr. Henry NJ. Lepziger, the superih-
tendent and practical executive OF the courses "
whom the speakers Joined IN conceding last hish'
was due much Of the usefulness OF the system anu
the large proportions to which II has grown
Ross,ter Johnson chairman Of the committee
having the dinner In charge, presided, and at the
head table were also seated, in ADDITION 10 IL
Ieipziger Miss Pauline Leipziger MIS-. JonnSoh'
Chancellor Henry NJ MacCracken, Dr. fn'"p
Merowitz General Thomas j. Morgan late Co"i-
missioner of Indian Affairs: Isidor Straus. Hugh
Kelly H. F. JGunnison, A. +. Marble. A. D. bick-
more Miss Mary Proctor. DR.. W. Eliot Grihis'
Cornell University and Arthur f. Bostwick r. ~
A. Dorr Edward p. Clark H. s. Fuller ana H. ~
Nelson. More than one hundred and fifty guests
were present and the number lnciuueu many
women The committee responsible for the ar
rangements included besides Mr. Johnson, Johh
Lloyd Thomas H. l.. Bridgeman, W. ~ NC
Crackan Dr. Wendell c. Phillips. w. Alexander
Hoy John Foord A. r. Van Laer. T. e. Martin. w.
r. Hardy and II. w. Smith.
Mr. Johnson after giving welcome TO the guests
introduced. with many happy phrases the guest Oh
trernely cordial greeting. and said among other
things:
In recent address Lord Salisbury sgnifca I,ty
referred to the power which public OPINION Moment nos
due to this regard for what the people think
This Difference to public opinion Is the triumpH
public opinion should be sound and sane, and thai
the Democracy that Yields this power snail Wled
To give those ideals to furnish the nspira ton TO
plain living and lofty thinking. TO spread abroad ',n s
truth that shall make men free, Is the purpose oI
the University Of the Busy-the Free Lecture
Course.
repetition of former tales. Four new centres
were opened during the iast season. making 50
were given. and the total attendance reached 40:
So Seven years ago with lss lectures the a.,
tendance at the new centres. and the maintenance
nay OF at the Gd n aS oS
cation Is one that responds 10 an aspiration on tne
sands Of m men and women who find at these lect
ures stimulus guidance ana who carry AIRY on, on py
connection With their everyday work Education
beginning 10 see. does not end at the gram
| process Nor is it limited as high low. any
| age to any sex. or TO any condition -.
The movement of which our free lecture course
| Is part IL sometimes known university ex-
| tension. In many of the reports OF the movement
| tries I find it stated that the working people do
not attend In as large numbers as they should
| all composed of working people Our lecture
{hss
use for this purpose becomes an educati onai cen
paving the way for the time when in each Assem-
| bly, district OF our city there shall be municipal
| assembly hall where citizens can meet TO discuss
| those broad non-partsan questions which affect
The course of lectures during the last season has
been more closely correlated than in any previous
many of the lectures were arranged in courses Of
six, and the syllabus used with good effect: A
quiz followed the lecture in several Of the courses
ard the interest In the examination was lively. ny
| this examination was Sratihed to md how much
reading was being done by the regular attendants.
The systematic course pursued during the last sea-
| son was Impossible seven years ago The mass Oh
| or continuous thought In fact: ms you well know,
give popular Lecture to mixed n Volunteer au
| dence How easy in comparison is the task Of the
| more critical than such audiences as gathered in
| halls. And that they held by the simple
| speaks volumes for the good commons sense of the
common people. So say the fact that such genuine
| interest was evnced In lectures given in courses Is
| the best testimony the truth of the statement
that studous spirit is gradually being developed in
Chancellor MacCracken of the New-York J'nlver-
sy Pok bo 0m Length the kindred rea
versity teachers. He hailed them brethren The
| mature men and women the other spoke to youth
still devoted to playing ball. THE public school
han the I proeso DR. saG said ow
| can man fall into rut who to-day lectures in
| Harlem and tomorrow may be under orders for
| Tompkins Square? The University man will not
| grumbe that he is not paid $40 an hour. like the
| public school lecturer for he has four hundred
chances year where the latter has only four. AS
look at the array OF sixscore lecturers fronting
| me-" he added. they seem irresistible power
| For ten years the Ambassadors of the great
| Powers have been lecturing the Turk and have
| achieved nothing. II could send this phalanx
Of public school lecturers to Turkey they
| would bring the Turk to terms inside OF thirty
| days But cannot spare them 10 Turkey. We
| must. however II the Greater New-York is TO come
| next week send them to Brooklyn now and then
| and Staten Island. The charter, rejoice to
| know. is not TO interfere with the public school
| lecturers of NewYork."
| Addresses were also made by Miss Mary Proctor,