New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-31
FREE NIGHT LECTURES.
GROwN-UP PEOPLE ALONE ADMITTED
TO THESE EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS.
SOME OF THE WOMEN WHO ARE TO LECTURE
THIS SEASON: AND WHAT THEY WILL
TALK ABoUT-THE COURSE IS
CALLED "A UNIVERSITY
FOR THE BUSY.

FOR THE BUSY"
The Board Of Education free lecture course has
often been called the university Of the Busy"
and its friends think II the greatest movement Of
modern times for adult education. This course has
begun its work for the year 1878 and the thirty
halls used were first opened TO the public on Oc-
tober IS. The record. show that 42692 persons at
tended last year.
The Board Of Educators Committee on Even
ing Schools, Of which Commissioner Henry A.
Rogers is chairman. has printed million copies OF
q programme setting forth the topics OF the talks.
This was prepared by Superintendent Henry NJ.
Leipziger and the copies will be distributed 10 the
school children whose parents invited TO at
tend
A LECTURERS POETIC DESCRIPTION.
The halls are .ariously located throughout the
city from the Battery TO Bedford Park. In poem
recited dinner Of the lecturers. Colonel
G. Douglas Beaverton aptly describes what will
take place at each OF the lecture centres to-mor
row night, thus:
The evening arrives, let us visit the scene
And join with the throngs that rapidly stream.
AS they hasten 10 welcome the CLEAN OF light
That shines to announce free lecture" tonight.
! Where the schOolhouse ana hall lyceun gate,
With wide open doors for our citizens wait.
me e sno%H 9lks mock n put YOUNGSTERS are barred
! II is by the clock. our colleague arises,
RFh w In nsGno me ahd sw m resc
! What views, stereoptioon. well illustrate
How closely the audience hearkcn to CLEAN
| And winnow his words as their harvest they
Some viii bide some be lost, the tide sweeps
That may SIN leave a shell where its light bill
whose cfoisters of pearls shall an echo retain.
/ As the conch harbors old oceans refrain
! The listeners vary-ht speech should allow.
! For din renee 'twlxt culture and less lifted brow:
! Locality. too, Il Is well to consider,
! Lest over their heads our talk We deliver.
| suHlce 10 say thai their narratives reach
From the chill Polar Sea to the tropics bright
Cover prairie and mountain when summe, winds
And probe the deep riffs where the cataracts flow:
Some force the dumb lips OF fair science 70 speak
Evolving great power fron things counted weak;
We bind as our slaves to the task they are hidden.
| With subjects so varied. so broad in selection.
/ IT'S hard II the hearer can't make his selection
| Their treatment diverse. some wary OF wit
| Some rowing through roses. at butterflies fit:
! Some deeply abtrus. ms the 'pons ssinorum'
| Some Webster-like. waking the shouts OF the
Some, striking in metaphor. happily, catching.
Fresh tropes in fashion exceedingly fetching.
DR. LEIPzIGER TELLS ABOUT THE COURSE
THE course Of free lectures demonstrates that ed
| ucaton does not end at the grammar school. high
| school or college" said Dr. Leipziger Tribune
reporter but is continuous process not limited
10 high or low, to any age. tc any sex nor to any
who lind at these lectures stimulus and guidance.
and who carry on. under the influence Of this slim
| suing their every day work
! 1.-THE university is the laboratory OF the special
! list The free lectures the distributors Of this
| intellectual wealth, gathered by that specialist
| Those who come from the university. who hay,
| something 10 tell, go to interest. And more
willing listeners than those who gather at these
| lectures
! The speakers however. include. besides thosf
who are distinctiyely teachers. doctors. lawyers
| Journalists. travellers and explorers, engineers
artists musicians and mechanics"
SOME OF THE WOMEN LECTURERS.
An,one the lecturers for the ensuing season are .
| number Of women whose names not unfamiliar
to the public. such as Miss Ida Bentley. Miss Adele
NJ Fielde, Miss Jennie NJ. Davis. Mrs Ami,
Nathan Meyer. Miss Alice Donleavy, Miss KATE
! Chittendon and Miss Mary Proctor.
Miss Benfey's work the free lecture cours,
has been limited TO dramatic readings from lie
Miserables. "A Tale OF Two Cities" The Mil OF
the Floss" and Adam Bede" Miss Fielde live,
for fifteen years in China. and has published
dictionary OF one of its dialects as well as volumes
Of its folklore. Her talks China replet
with personal experiences. During the last season
she also spoke on Parliamentary Law
Miss Proctor has chosen to take up her father