New-York tribune., 1904-10-03
FREE LECTURES TONIGHT.
Courses arranged By Board of Ed"-
cation-Dr. Eliot TO Speak.

The sixteenth season OF free lectures under the
direction OF the Board OF Education VIII oeslh 20,
night The lectures viii be given IN prae1lea4is a1'
the centres throughout the city in al the boroushS
The courses promised are OF great interest and
value and suggest that the lectures this year VIII
re better than IN any preceding year. one course
viii be given by men prominent in education H.
Guiding Presidents Eliot OF Harvard. Woodrow
Wilson Of Princeton. aad Finley OF the Ciiy Col
lege
There viii be about ore hundred and forty lecture
centres so situated thar practically no resident
VIII be without convenient place 10 attend Ia
the Borough Of Manhattan there VIII be sixty
centres New centres are established In the as
sembly hail Of The High School OF Commerce, in
SiKty-sixth-st west OF Broadway; the hall OF Pub
lie School No iss. Lewis and East Houston SITS.
and tie Mission OF the Immaculate Virgin No a46
West Fifty-siKth-st.
In The Bronx a centre 10 be opened Is:
The Morris High School, One-hundrei- -and-sixty-
EiKth-st. between Boston Road and Jackson-ave.
This win make a total in The Bronx Of nineteen
centres.
In Brooklyn lectures VIII he given in thirty-three
places. including new centres, Columbus Hall.
F'ourfeenth-st, Fourth-ave.. and the People 5
Hebrew Institute. No. C5 Meserole-st.
The Borough OF Queens viii have twenty-one
centres, among which are Bryant High School
Wilbur-aVe. and Academy-st.. Long Island city,
and Association Han. Hollis, Long Island
In the Borough Of Richmond there VIII be seven
centres ST. Andrews Parish House. Richmond.
Staten Island. being new lecture one.
Many excellent courses are offered on electricity.
physics, chemistry. astruuomy and other branches
Of science courses and single lectures literature
art. music, architecture and other subjects Of
sesthetic and educational value and an especially
large number OF courses and lectures on history,
sociology. travel, descriptive geography and kin
dred subjects Scientific lectures viii be illustrated
by experiments and demonstrations, lectures on
music and literature by selections and all lectures,
when at all possible, by stereopticon views.
Among the lecturers In science may he mentioned
Professor Ernest r, Won NardroI OF Erasmus
Hall High School who viii give course of nine
lectures Electricity and Magnetism in the
assembly HAN of the Board Of Education Park-ave
and Fifty-ninta-str on Wednesday evenings, be
ginning October 1s. InsPublc School No 81, No 522
West FOrty-fourth-st Monday evenings. begin
ming October TO- Professor Charles L. Harrington
VIII give series OF lectures Electricity
includng such interesting and timely topics
Wireless Teegraphy' 'Dynamical Electricity
snd "Rontgen Rays" An these lectures will be il
Illustrated by experiments and stereopticon views.
A course OF eleven lectures astronomy and bl-
ology will be given IN Public School No 80 No. 22i
East Eighty-eighth-st-. by Dr. s. A. Mitchell and
Professor Francis r. Lloyd. both OF Columbia INT
VeTsity. DR.. Mtchell's course on astronomy Will
begin on Friday. October = and Professor LIoyd's
course on THE Vegetation Of the Earth Fri
day, November IS. Professor Robert ". Prentss
will give series of six lectures astronomy in
Public School No. 1S5. First-ave and Fiftyhrst-st,
on Monday evenings. beginning October TO- while
William Il. Elsng will give four lecture
geology in the centre. beginning Mon
day. November q. ". ". Ker viii lecture
electricity the Educational Alliance. East Broad
way and Jefferson-st., beginning on Thursday, Oc-
The departments of zoology and anthroPology
VII % represented by me lectures o. fihest niger
SOL ana Dr. Livingston FarTand or Columbia Uni
Tersity, at the American Museum of Natural Iis-
tory. These courses viii run on Saturday evenings
3ustrated By stereopucon views.
The department OF physics and physical Eeogra-
tIsude = Wake and Jscoges - N Re5Uav Py on On
news Lyceum Hall No. 40 East orty-second-st.
These lectures win be supplemented by a course on
Wednesdays The same place on European geog-
raphy on Wednesday evenings. beginning Mo-
Neinber e. in the great han of the Cooper Institute.
Professor John $ Mckay, Of Packard Collegiate
Matter, Electricity and Radiation
ON saturday evenings in the same hall. a special
be presented, beginning November u Among
prominent educators who have promised 10 deliver
dent Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. President Fin
ley, of the City College, ana City Superintendent
Literature is represented by the following
courses, among others course Of six lectures on
The Greek Poets by Professor Louis Bevier. jr..
9t Rutgers College. This course will be given on
friday evenings, beginning October :. at the Wad-
lelgh High school e-hundred-and- -fft eenth-st.
iaTi by DR. Rudolf Tombo. ir. Of Columbia Tni-
Nersity who on Friday. November IS. win begin
Writers" Public School No So Seventieth-st and
sShlfSi-aHe:. VIII have course Of ten lectures on
A large number of courses offered in the
gepaftinents OF history and geography. DR.. Frank
b Kelley viii give an illustrated course His
LOTTO traces IN New York To-day i'm Public School
10. - e-hundred-and forty -hrst-st and Edge
'olnpe-aVe, beginning Friday, November is
MANY courses have been arranged physiology
M hygiene first aid To the injured. the prevention
~ uilptloIl, etc. Courses of five lectures
FIRST aid "a the Injured" will be given Public
sclool No. Il. No. 225 East Twenty y-seYenth-st.
Mondays, beginning October g. Public School No
~ oEe-hundred nd thirty third-s near Eighth
ave. Lh1rsddys beginning October 70: Judson Me-
Ioflal ltail, Washington Square South on Tues
GAYS, beginning October is, and the West Side
Nelghborhood House, No. Jl West Fiftieth-st., on
course an examination will be held and diplomas
ISSUED Lectures on the Far Fast which IS Of
socA prominent interest at the present time will be
given IN many of the centres
courses IN music will be given by Mrs Mary
gregory Murray and Or. Henry C. Hanchof al the
Young Mems Hebrew Association Hall Nine
ty-second-st and IeKington-ave. on Wednes-
dass heginning October Il; at the I-niver-
slty settlement Eldridge and Rivington sts by
Frederic Reddail and others. on T,,eeSs1-s OToter
Al snd December s, by Mrs. Helen O'I6onnell and
9thers, on Fridays. October Il and December al
Fubhc school No. l5I. 81 NicholaE-sVe and ONE
ntnoreQ nd vent tY-SeVenth-Et and on SATURDAYS
81 PUBIC school No. !. Henry and Catherine SITS
i'f Alexander j. Savage and others will give a
course on ART and architecture on alternate SAT-
nrdays beginning October l.. IN Public School No
Ios one-hundred-a ed-and-siNteenth-st. near Fifth-ave
ana Arthur A. Stoughton viii give a similar course
az Cathedral Hail. No III East Fiftieth-st an
wednesday, beginning October ls.
THE M'NALLY INQUEST TO-DAY