The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-16
PUBLIC LECTURE COURSE
OPENS ON WEDNESDAY, EVENING
 OF NEXT WEEK.


 Ever Presented in These Popular En- tertainments.
 The Public Lecture course, which opens next Wednesday evening in Col lege street hall for the season of 19o5-6, presents an unusually brilliant series of entertainments.
 Professor Griggs, the distinguished lecturer. who opens the course, has all ways been a great favorite in New Ha- ven. This year he will deliver two H. lustrated lectures, one on ''Venice, the City of Golden Dreams" and the other on Florence, the Heart of the Renais- sance." Professor Griggs was educat- ed at the Indiana university and the University of Berlin. He was professor of literature in the Indiana university and later professor of ethics and educa- tion in the Leland Stanford university. Since 1899 he has devoted his entire time to public lectures.
 Jacob A. Riis, the journalist, author and lecturer, is known for his wonder ful labors in the small park and play ground movement in New York city, and in tenement house and school re- form, where he was associated with President Roosevelt when the latter was police commissioner in New York, His books have been widely read, and as lecturer his portrayal of life in the slums is most vivid. and thrilling. His lecture on ''Tony's Hardships" will deal with this topic in a graphic way.
 Professor William Lyon Phelps is al- ways eagerly listened to by the people of New Haven. In his lecture on Mrs Humphrey Wards Novels and the one on Benamin Franklin in celebration of the birth of that distinguished man, Professor Phelps will be at his best.
 Dr. Henry Zick, a native of Heidel- berg and graduate of that famous university, and one of the noted nem- bers of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, will lecture on Student Life in Old Heidel- berg" The lecture will be fully illus trated by lantern slides.
 Ernest Thompson Seton is to give a new lecture on Adventures of Animal Friends" Mir. Seton is always charm. ing in his idealistic portraiture of the ! animal creation in fact and fancy, and he will be most cordially welcomed.
 Dr. William Elliot Griffis has become so identified with Japan by his labor as an organizer of schools, superintendent of education and professor in the TokiC university, and has studied that inter. esting nation so thoroughly and written on such a varied list of topics concern- ing Japan, that his audience may be sure of a rich treat from his store oi knowledge and adventure among the Japanese people. ..
 Leland T. Powers, who has been con stantly growing in popularity in his dramatic recitals, will render Robert sons play of David Garrick
 Dr. Samuel NJ. Brothers, whose inter esting books, "The Gentle Reader, Miss Muffett's Christmas Party" etc, are widely known, will give a new lee ture in this course.
 George F. Vincent, the distinguishe son of Bishop Vincent, is one of tht most famous of the Chautauqua leo turers. His subject will be The Psy chology of the Crowd" ...
 Professor J. Travis Mills, of Cam bridge university, England, will giv an illustrated lecture on John Bright Professor Mills is one of the most cele brated of the English University Ex tension lecturers.
 A special feature of this course vii be the three musical entertainments Henry E. Krehbiel, the widely know musical critic of the New York Tribun staff, who has a host of friends am admirers in this city, will lecture ol Wandering Ballads" and the subjeC will be illustrated by Mrs. Krehbiel i vocal and Instrumental accompani ments.
 Mir. and Mrs Barclay Durham, who's speciality is song talks and songs, wi present the great popular America, song writers of the present time, wit vocal and instrumental illustrations.
 And the Trio club, consisting of ou own Professors Stanley Knight an Isador Troostwyk, and Dr. Leo Schult of New York, the distinguished solois 'cellist, composer and conductor, wi give one of their concerts
 Season tickets, price $3 for the entii twenty-six lectures, with circulars, ca be obtained at the free public library. |