New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-28
FREE EVENING LECTURES.
EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO HAVE
THEM SUPERIOR TO THOSE OF
PREVIOUS YEARS

There is every promise that the free lectures of
next winters course to the people given by the
School Board Of the Boroughs of Manhattan ana
The Bronx will be more numerous, excellent and
popular than ever. The course will begin on next
Monday night, and up to January l about seven
hundred lectures have been planned for If the
additional sum Of $4,000 asked from the Board or
Estimate and Apportionment is granted, 1t will be
used to establish centres, and especially to In
crease the number of lectures on scientific subjects.
While the lecture topics WILL in the main. be the
same last year, there will be a strong effort
made to treat the topics more extensively. One of
the arrangeme nts is to devote all Saturday
night lectures, at St Bartholomew Lyceum Hall,
to courses on light and heat, and new course In
the Baron de Hirsch Trade School will be a series
of seven lectures electricity. An important
Will be that educational topics at the
West Side Auditorium the first of which will be
given on October u by DR.. w. L. Harvey, who will
take for his subject The Fathers Share in the
Education of His Children" The gratuitous offer
Of two halls as lecture centres, added 10 those
used without charge last year. is very gratifying,
and larger audiences will also be reached through
the opening of the lecture hall of the Museum
of Natural History. which will seat five hundred
more persons than the old hall would accommodate.
The Tuesday evening lectures at the Museum
have been among the most popular and this sea-
son the topics treated will be mostly accounts of
travel and timely subjects as well will receive at
tention. Several prominent lecturers on the East
question have been secured, among them being
Dr. William f. Grfis A c. Maclay and Guy NJ.
Walker
The programme of the lectures for the coming
week is follows:
Monday, October AT Public School No. 3, corner
Grove and Hudson SITS. T W. Surette will give the
first OF a course of lectures Music" the course
to continue on successive Mondays; on Thursdays,
at the place, lectures will be given on THE
History of New-York City At Public School No
10. ed-and-seventeenth-st and st. Nicho-
las-ave.. DR.. f. H. Sykes will begin a course of
lectures Literature" and on Thursday evenings
the lectures at this centre will be Art"
Tuesday October 2-At Public School No. 80, No
2A East Eighty eighth-st., course Travel
will begin. the first lecture being by George Don
aldson; on Fridays the course will be American
History" by II. w Elson.
Wednesday, October Sat st. Bartholomew's
LNceum Hall, No 205 East FOrty-second-st. the
first of the Wednesday evening lectures on Euro
pean Geography viii he given; on Saturdays Pro-
fessor e r. Won Nardorff will lecture on Light
The course at the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Hall, at No. West One-hundred- and twenty
ffth-st, will be begun by T. w. Surette, and at the
Young Mems Christian Association Hall, Twenty
third-St. and FOurth-aVe, DR.. F. II. sykes Will
begin course Literature"
Thursday, October Lectures will begin at Pub
lie School No. 46, One hundred -tifty-sixth-st.
and St NichOlas-ave.; at Columbus Hall StXtieth-
St, between Ninth and Tenth aves and at Public
School No. I54, st. Anns-ave. and e-hundred-
and-forty- eigb th-st