New-York tribune., 1900-03-04
THE FREE LECTURE SYSTEM
THREE NEW CENTRES OPENED-INNO-
WALTON IN SCIENTIFIC COURSES
EAST SIDE TO HAVE LITERATURE.

EAST SIDE TO HAVE LITERATURE.
The free lectures to the people under the auspices
of the Board OF Education have been extended by
the opening of three new centres-one at City
Island, another in Public School No. 167, Mott-ave.
and cumberland -forty-tifth-st and the third
in the new Hall of Education: The establishment
of the City Island is step toward the COM
petiOn of the plan to supply the isolated communi-
ties in the northern part of the city with the same
class Of lectures enjoyed by residents of the
crowded districts. This Is warranted by the great
interest shown in the centres at Inwood and Wake
field and that recently opened in High Bridge, all
of which will be continued. The -hundred-and-
forty-hfth-st. hail is be opened to accommodate
the increasing attendance which during the last
course was thirty thousand in excess of the preV-
Gus year. while several Individual centres recorded
an average attendance Of over one thousand per-
each lecture night.
While a number of the courses will be repeated at
centres in different neighborhoods, the programmes
contain also number of new courses by OLD lect-
urers and many new names and topics as we'll
One of these courses marks particularly the
extension of lecture influence into scientific fields
This is n series OF six lectures anthropOogy by
DR.. Spencer Trotter. of Swarthmore College, which
Will be given on successive Wednesdays, beginning
this week at Association Hall Twenty y-third-st. and
Fourth-ave. Some of the topics to he discussed
are: Mature and Man" Development of Ian
guage and writing Religion and Science and
Society" all illustrated with stereopticon views
These will be followed by lectures on the New
York Aquarium by Professor Charles L. Bristol
and on Birds by Mr.. butcher
Another new lecturer will be Franklin Matthews.
The author who viii lecture Cuba as follows:
Institute Hall, No. 2l8 East One-hundred-and-
sixth-st. March g. Public School No. II. March 10;
Public School No. 80 April 10; Public School No 81,
April 10; Public School No. 10. April 26 and else
where. Samuel Kean, a the list who is
a practical miner, will discuss Gold Mining IN the
Klondke" at Public School No, 81 on March and
at Institute Hal March 16. A native of Japan T.
Kairyama a Yale graduate. will appear for the first
time in lectures Modern Japan at Public
School No. l47 East Broadway and Scammel-st.,
April II and at Public School No. 10, West One
hundred d-and-seYenteenth-st.. April - Public
School No. a No. 225 East Twenty-seventh-st-,
Will also have its share of novelties. including Jo-
seph Devlin's lecture 'The Lepers Of Molokai"
March 70: Foster CrowelFs exposition Of The
American Isthmus Canal and {. c. Adams's new
lecture, South Africa and the Present War
which will he given also at several other centres.
AT the Observation-Disclosures ty-ifth-st Young
Mems Christian Association Hall, successive
Wednesdays. beginning March I. new series OF
eight lectures Eminent Characters will be
given by various lecturers including DIR. Merle st.
{. Wright. DR.. William 3. Hale and Professor Ed
ward Howard Griggs. The Saturday lectures at this
centre Will he Professor E. r. Won Nardror's
course on Physics" in which every step is proved
by experiments with laboratory apparatus. This
will be given on Wednesdays at Cooper
Union
OLD FAVORITES RETAINED.
Among well known lecturers who will be heard
again is Professor G. Wharton James. who will
give a popular course on ''New-Mexico and Ari-
IONA the American Museum of Natural His
tory on Tuesdays, beginning March q, and his
course California" at Institute Hall on Fri
days beginning March 80 and also at the Educa-
uonal Alliance. Professor T W. Surette. II. w
Elson, DR.. +. II. Sykes and DR.. W. Il. Hale Will
also appear at the centres devoted to new special
ties-rnusc, history and literature.
The usual practice OF devotng the evenings at
certain centres to particular class OF SUBJECTS
which ts dscusse3 at some length Will be followed
during this course The musical centres Will be-
Columbus Hall. Sixtieth-st- near Ninth-aye, where
connected series Of Illustrated lectures The
Great Composers, which will be continued by spe-
hetWcaI Tintb and rentb s Vii
have MUSICAL lectures throughout the course every
Tuesday. Mr.. Surette and DR.. Hanchett Will give
linist will give solos Tuesdays al institute Hail
will be devoted to long course OF Individual must
cal lectures Much the same course Will be given
at Public School No. - No, 72S Fifth-st, on Mon
In the art lectures to be given at the Art Stu
dents League Saturdays, that by Kenyon Cox
long sT Of attracve sdbects has been preP9red
The scientific lectures are TO be given in greater
to those already menI9ned there vii be course
TO be delivered Saturdays at ST. Bartholomew's ;
Lyceum Hall; n course OF nine lectures popu-
building. matchmaking, park botany and kindred
subjects, at Public School No. 3. Grove and Hud-
son SITS, on Thursdays, well T.. Il. Dunn's
lectures on The Science of the Weather.'', while
Pubic B School No a. East roadWay va and sSsm at
mel-st, and i'd at Public School No. 3, One-hundred-
days days > ''' ''' anu
The lectures on First Aid to the Injured" com
The same head These viii be given by four differ
@ orda ThGrsdays in March Public HShs% eh6o No
&C. Kingsbrdge Mondays from March 29; Public