The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-11
THE snEFt1EED Lno1UnEs, 1895.
Textures of the Highly Attractive Course,
Which Opens Next Week.

18th, Is remarkable in that every one
of the lectures will be illustrated in
some way. Eleven of them by lantern
slides, and the twelfth, which treats
the Songs of Southern India" by the
voice. The course has, therefore, one
of the elements of popularity without
being unscientific. The first lecture
Will be given by President Mendenhall
of the Worcester Polytechnic institute,
and will treat of weighing the earth.
President Mendenthall is a member Of
the National Academy of Sciences,
and distinguished physicist, and it is
very appropriate that he should be Sc
lected to open the course. He will be
followed by Prof. L. v. PRISON of the
Scientific school, who will give an ac-
count of an exciting trip which he
made last summer in connection with
a party of biologists in the Caucasus
mountains. Prof. e. W. Hopkins, who
follows Prof. Prison, has not been long
enough in New Haven to be as widely
known here as most of the members of
the faculty. The fact, however, that
he should have been chosen as the sue
cessor of Prof. whitney shows his
standing as a Sanscrit scholar, and as
he has recently passed a year in the
prosecution of his studies in India, his
Illustrated lecture on the temples Of
that wonderful country will be sure to
be interesting. Prof. ]. E. Keller of
the Allegheny observatory is one of
the younger astronomers Of the coun-
try, who have achieved q reputation
within a short time. His lecture on
the Moon win be Illustrated by
photographs, showing the very latest
discoveries in the scientific study of
our pale satellite. Two lectures are to
be given this year by Prof. D. Cady
Eaton, one on "Ferrara" and the other
on Beatrice d'Este and Lodovico II
Moro" Prof. Eaton's lectures are al
ways popular, and he has covered a
great many phases of art in the many
years in which he has appeared before
a New Haven audience, sometimes
speaking of medieval architecture,
sometimes of Greece, sometimes Of
Egypt The art of northern Italy
gives him field with which the mass
of his audience will be comparatively
unfamiliar, and which will therefore
have the charm of novelty enhanced
by Prof Eatons we'll known pithy and
original treatment. The sixth lecture,
on 1.-THE Influence of the Physical AS
poets Of the Eastern States on Their
Settlement" will be given by Bailey
Willis, member Of the United States
geological survey. Many will be in
terested to know that Mr. Willis Is a
son of the late N. p. Willis, and his
lecture will deal with a subject that
always draws the attention of the
student Of sociology who is SO often
confronted with the question whether
nature influences man more than man
influences nature. Prof. Brewer, who
has lectured in this course every year
from the beginning, and who Is always
glaly heard, will speak this year on
| 1.-THE Forest States"
The subject Of forestry Is one of the
many branches of science to which
| tention, and his membership on the
| national forestry commission enables
| him to speak with particular authority
on this topic.
Lieutenant Murray, who has been
connected with the Scientific school for
two years as professor of military sci
ence, will be welcome addition to the
list of lecturers. The subject Of Mod
ern War Material" is one upon which
he is an acknowledged expert, and he
has had charge of designing many of
the latest improvements in our coast
| defenses.
| Work and WEAKNESS is subject
with which the human race has had
practical experience from the begin
| ming Of it's existence. Few, however,
know what they are IN the physiologi-
cal sense. Professor L. B. Mendel, who
has lately been appointed assistant
professor of physiological chemistry,
will treat this subject from the point
| of view of his own science, and his lee
! ture will be illustrated not only by Ian
tern slides, but also by experiments.
| DTs JeUklLS, WHO gives lHG eleN6HLD
| lecture in the course, will speak of
Sewage Disposal" DR.. Jenkins is a
member of the state commission on
| sewage disposal and will speak of the
matter not only from the point of view
| of the scientific student, but also from
| that of the administrator who has
practical problems to solve The ques-
ton of sewage is one which is rapidly
becoming very burning question in
| this state, and no one is better able to
enlighten us upon it than Dr. Jenkins
the director of the Connecticut agricul-
tural experiment station.
The last lecture in the course will be
given by Professor F. X. Sanders on
| the Folk Songs of Southern india
| Professor Sanders has spent several
years in India, and the material which
he has collected for this lecture is en-
tirely new, not having appeared in lit
erature hitherto. The songs of which
he will speak and of which he will give
us specimens are those which he him.
self has caught from the natives of In
dia. There has been SO much discus
sion regarding India recently, on &C.
| count of the famine, the plague, the In.
| dian currency reform and the war or
the frontier, that the committee fell
justified in devoting two out of the
twelve lectures to this wonderful ant