New-York tribune., 1899-07-20
LECTURES TO THE PEOPLE.
DR.. LEIPZIGER PREPARING THE sCHED-
ULEs FOR NEXT SEASON
SOME OF THE FIFTY NETWORK WOMEN WHO
HELPED TO MAKE LAST YEARS COURSE
A

GREAT SUCCESS
These are busy days with DR. Henry NJ Lep-
ziger. the efficient supervisor OF free lectures
| the people. while the courses OF lectures being
mapped out for the coming year and lecturers
ected and assigned. with due regard to the varied
| needs OF the different localities into which they
10 be sent
| That this trivial matter NAV be inferred
| from the fact that last season the number OF
! lectures given 1923; the number OF lecturers
employed, 30; the centres covered. 45 and the num-
Der OF people who availed themselves OF the priv
| iege Of attendance upon the lectures is estimated
| to be 500 O.o
With the phenomenal growth OF this system
which includes the best features Of the University
! Extension and Lyceum lecture courses II is safe
| To predict that the coming year will find expan-
sion terrtoriay necessity. and that DR.. Leipziger
Will stn again be obliged TO engthen his stakes
and increase his band OF workers.
In the year to come" says DR.. Leipziger II
trust that a wider extension of the cooperation
OF the lecture hall and the library will be brought
| about, and that special centres will be de-
veloped and that a certificate will be awarded for
attendance at the lectures. I trust too. that the
/ appreciation OF the Importance Of this movement
for adult education will lead 10 the establishment
OF good halls. with comfortable seats for the toll
student. for Emerson says the wisest
economy is the care and culture Of men. The ex-
pansion OF knowledge and moral influence through
the medium OF this lecture will, sincerely
believe make our city the most patriotic and best
| Informed city in the world"
In the report Of the free lectures to the people
prepared by Dr. Leipziger for the of 1898 and
1899 and recently issued by the Department Of
Education School Board for the Boroughs Of Man
haitian and The Bronx 1t is OF especial interest to
note the goodly proportion Of women represented
In the various courses.
Out Of the two hundred lecturers engaged during
and Wpr
the department Of physiology and hygiene the fol-
lowing physicians physical culture teachers and
superfntendents OF nurses were represented: Dr.
Josephine Walker Miss Lillian Wald. Dr. Elizabeth
Jarrett. Miss Caroline B. lie Row. DR.. Emily c.
Charles Dr. Jane T. Robbins, Mrs. A. VI. F.
Calkins and Mrs. Elizabeth II. Hanes.
In the natural science department Miss Mary
Procto- has given a number Of lectures on astron-
omy; Mrs. Mary s Woolman, Of Teachers college,
has given a special great industries and
Miss Edith Very has told Of fax culture and linen
manufacture.
Among the lecturers in the historical department
appear the names OF Mrs Harriet NJ Converse,
Miss Jennie NJ. Davis, Miss E T. Lander, Miss
Anna " Benjamin Miss Julia H. Chadwick. Mrs
Westover-Alden Miss Alice Donlevy and Miss
Annie P. Meade.
Under the head Of Municipal Topics" Mrs.
Charles Russell Lowell gave a lecture on Civil
Service reform, accepting fee for her services
were given by Mrs II. j. Gieow Miss Mary V.
Worsteu Mrs Emma S. Colcleugh Miss Anne
Rhodes Miss Annie p. Meade. Miss II. Louise
Stevens, Mrs. Florence J. Stoddard, Miss Lucy r.
Bliss Mrs J. H. Gore, Mrs. Emma P. Telford and
Mrs Elizabeth L. Houston.
Miss Eleanor B. Caldwell and Miss Alice Donlevy
represented the women lecturers In the art de-
partment, while literature found its exponents in
Miss Agnes Crawford, Miss Emma E. West, Miss
Adela Rankin. Mrs. II. O. Dellenbaugh Mrs. J. J.
Schoonoven, Miss Belle Lindner and Miss Caroline
3. lie Row
In the lectures on music women were also well
represented by Mrs. Stella Hadden-Aexander' Miss
Kate S Chttenden Miss Fanny G.. Levy. Mrs.
Marie Merrtck. Miss Florence MacFarland and Miss
Lille dAngelo Bergh.
At the ninth annual reunion and dinner OF the
lecturers in the free lecture course given by the
Board OF Education on May the Hotel Man
haitian the following graceful tribute was paid the
work OF the women by DR.. Leipziger in mis- annual
resume OF the work accomplished:
The free lecture system is a veritable godsend in
a great CITY like In sections where the poor
dwell what glad hours these lecture hours are!
visits far off lands Is inspired by the strain or
some noble music, or is delighted with the INES or
the immortal bardl What moral anudote TO the
temptations OF the city these lecture nails are;
What a delight to a hall In the BoWery crowded
with earnest men, following after hard day
work a course electricity What pleasure 10
see In these halls man and wife. brother and sis
ter meeting at the temple OF learning, and having
a wider horizon given not alone 10 the present put
the coming generation And I may say here that
this lecture course is really coeducationa IL mas
been discovered as one could expect tnat tne SCI,
music lectures TO women; and IN the rank OF me
lecturers. too. large proportion OF our successful
iecfrrers I am glad 10 say, women, and they
prove fully. indeed. that woman is not undeveloped
man.