Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-20
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
Committee of Civic Center to Report
Course of Lectures.

The university extension committee of the
Civic Center will make a preliminary re-
port next Tuesday evening at a public
meeting to re held in the hall of the Co
lumbar University, at which time address
es on the subject Of popular education will
be delivered by President B. l.. Whitman
of the Columbian University; Prof. John
NJ. Coulter of the University of Chicago:
Mr. w. Is. Powell, superintendent OF schools,
and DIR. Murray Gait Motter, chairman of
the council of the Civic Center.
The committee has arranged for five
courses of lectures to be given under the
joint auspices of the Civic Center and the
board of school trustees, in the Central
High School Hall. corner 18th and o streets
northwest, on Tuesday and Thursday even
ingS, beginning January 80. These courses
will partake to some extent of the char
acter of the free lectures for the people
given in the public school buildings in New
York and some other cities: the Columbia
University lectures IN cooperation with
CCopar Union, or the Lowell Institute lee
lures in Boston. University extension meth
DDS will be employed, however, in con-
nection with some of the courses, at least
to the extent of using a printed syllabus to
assist the memory of the audience. These
sylla5i will give lists of reference books on
the subjects treated by the lecturers for
the benefit of any who nave the time and
selves and provision will be made by the
Library of Congress, and other libraries in
this city. to make these books as accessible
as possible to the public. The lectures,
well as the preliminary meeting next Tues
day evening, will be free to the public
The lectures have been arranged in two
general groups. The Tuesday evening lee
lures will be on subjects connected with
the social sciences, and the Thursday even
ing lectures will be on natural science. The
first course, beginning Tuesday evening,
January 30. will be on municipal Govern
ment," by Dr. E. Dana Durand, assistant
professor of finance and administration in
the Leland Stanford, jr., University. and
it will consist of five lectures treating of
the functions and organizations of city gov
ernments, and proposing remedies for eX-
listing abuses. This will be followed by
course on the Social History of Europe"
by Mr.. NJ. l.. Jacobson of the bureau of
statistics of the Treasury Department, who
delivered course of lectures on the same
topic last year before the Educational AL
lance of New York city, and has been
otherwise identified with popular education
in that city. The third and last of the So
cial science courses will be on the general
subject of The Evolution of Industry"
and the lectures will be delivered by Mr.
Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor;
Mr.. l.. G. Powers and Mr.. H. T. New
comb of the census office, and Prof. Chas
P. Neill of the Catholic University of
America.
The first course in natural science, begin
ninS thursday evening, i, Will
treat in popular way of the adaptation
of various forms of plant and animal life
to their environments. The first lecture
will be delivered by Prof. John NJ. Coul-
ter of the University of Chicago. who has
just published an important work entitled
PLANT Relations" and he will be followed
by Mr.. Frederick V. Coville, DIR. L. o.
Howard, DR.. T. S. Palmer, and Mr.. Yer
ron Bailey. all of the Department of Agri-
culture The second natural science course
will be on geological topics and will be
given by Mr.. ]. S. Diller and Mr.. G. X.
Gilbert of the geological survey, and Maj.
j. W. Powell and Mr.. w. ]. McGee of
the bureau of American ethnology
1t is the aim of the committee and of
the lecturers to make these talks of in
terest and value not only to the general
public, but also especially to the teachers
in the public schools who give instruction
in natural science, civics, history, etc
Besides those who are to take part in the
exercises Tuesday evening the commission
er of education, the commissioner of labor,
the librarian of Congress and the president
of the American Federation of Labor have
been invited to be present and to occupy
seats upon the platform.