New-York tribune., 1906-09-30
LECTURES MONDAY
Board of Education Plans Improued
Courses This Season.


Plans have been practically oou~iseed by ths
public lecture bureau OF the Board OF Education
for the nineteenth season Of public lectures
which will begin tomorrow evening. During
the next three months over five hundred indi-
viduaI lecturers will give talks to adults at 15s
public schools and lecture halls. In all. 2.112
lectures VIII be delivered
This season DR.. Henry NJ Leipziger. super
visor Of lectures. and the members OF the COM
mittee on lectures and libraries OF the Board OF
Education have sought to make the lecture sys-
TEN a working peoples university" with sys-
tematic courses, regular attendance and collat-
eral outside reading. Closer cooperation has
been effected with many OF the great educational
institutions Of the CITY, including the Society for
First Aid to the Injured. American Museum OF
Natural History. the committee on the preven-
tion OF tuberculosis. Columbia University and
the University Of Chicago. the American Society
for the Extension OF University Teaching and
the public libraries
Lectures will be provided In five OF the new
Carnegie libraries In Manhattan and Brooklyn,
the Libraries remaining open at the close of each
lecture to enable the auditors to draw out books
for home reading on the subject of the lecture.
In all Of the public library branches throughout
the city books pertaining to the lectures at tho
neighboring centres will be listed for the benedt
OF persons anxious to continue the study through
outside reading.
Advantage has been taken of the opening Of
new public school buildings TO provide for lect-
ures In their fully equipped lecture halls Dur
ing the first months Of the season twelve new
lecture centres will be opened The centres are
so located that residents Of the city will not be
far distant from at least one of them
OF the new centres this season four win be
located in Manhattan. six in Brooklyn and one
each In The Bronx and Queens.
In Manhattan the handsome new auditorium
OF the new De Witt Clinton High School In
Tenth avenue and o9th street, together with ne
new auditorium of Public School 62. IN Hester
and Essex streets. will open this season for the
first time Lectures will also be begun at Pub
lie School 169, in Audubon avenue, and the Hud-
son Park Branch of the New York Public Lii
brary, No. 90 Leroy street
The greater number Of the lectures VIII be
arranged in courses, of which there will be
seventyhve Each course will consist OF from
six 10 twelve lectures, given by the same lect-
urer, recognized authority on the subject COW
cred by his course. There will be a large num-
ber Of courses in electricity and the sciences,
as it has been found that they appeal parttCu-
larly to the working people anxious for selr-ln1-
Professor j. Newton Gray will lecture on
General Physics at Institute Hall, No. 21S
borhood House, In West 5Oth street. Professor
E r Won Nardroff will give course Heat
as Mode Of Motion" Electricity courses viii
be given at Public School 163, at 1OSth street
and Amsterdam avenue, by w. w. Ker. OF the
Hebrew Technical Institute on Saturdays; at
ST. Bartholomew's Lyceum Hall, in East 42d
street by Theodore l. Jones. and az Judson
Memorial Hail. Washington Square South, by
Professor G. L. Harrington.
y course IN chemistry Will De given Dy RrO-
fessor Morris Loeb, of New York University, at
the Museum OF Natural History Saturday
evenings, and Professor Samuel Q. SchmucSer,
OF the West Chester State Normal School. Of
Pennsylvania, will lecture Evolution at
the Young Mems Hebrew Association Hall. 92d
street and Lexington avenue. A course on as
tronomy Will be delivered by Professor r w.
Prentiss, of Rutgers College, at Public School
46, in st. Nicholas avenue; by DR.. S. a. Mitchell
at Public School 159 in East 10th street. and
by Professor Herman Davis at Public School
16O. Suffolk and Rivington streets.
Two lecture courses Of particular interest are
those by Professor Charles A. Beard and Pro-
fessor Frederick Sykes, OF Teachers College
The former will give twenty-eight lectures on
Modern European History" at Public School
on Wednesday. and Professor Sykes will give a
thirty lecture course English Literature Of
the Nineteenth Century" at De Witt Clinton
High School Those persons who attend 10 per
cent Of the lectures and pass the prescribed
examinations Will receive credit from both Co
lumbia University and the Board of Education
James Garfield, librarian of Columbia, Will
give a course on THE History of Civilization" !"
Professor Guy Carleton Lee one on "The FOrma-
tion of the American Ideal," and Professor j. B.
GOrdy, OF New York University, one on Rep
resentative American Statesmen" The lecturers
on sociology include Dr. James Walter Crook
of Amherst College; DR.. Stephen Duggan and
William Guthrie. of the College OF the City Of
New York. and DIR. W. P. Bliss. while htera-
ture courses will be given by Professor Adolphe
Cohn and Professor A. V. v. Jackson, OF Co
lumbia: Dr. Louis U. Wilkinson. of Cambridge
University. England: Leslie Willis SpragUe and
Thomas Whitney Suretts and Miss Mari Rues
Hofer. of Teachers College, will offer course In
music, while the art lectures will be delivered by
Professor Daniel A. Huebsch, William B. Tut
hill and Alexander 7. Van Leer.
Among the more important Of the lectures for
the opening week are the followingT
MONDAY. OCTOBER
1.-The Characters of Shakespeares Tragedy
Hamlet King Lear" by Louis U. Wilkinson. Of
Cambridge University, at the Educational Ani-
ance East Broadway and Jefferson street
Our Wild NeighbOrs," by Ernest Ingersoll, at
Public School 1885, Lewis. East Houston and
East Third streets.
THE Evolution and the Uses Of Money" by
Professor Walter E Clark of the College OF the
CITY of New York, at Public School 135, First
avenue and 51st street
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 2
''Flarthauakes." by Cyrus c. Adams. az St
Cornelius's Church, 423 West 10th street
'NIagne:ism' opening lecture of course on
Electricity" by Professor Charles L. Harring-
ton at JudsOn Memorial Hall. Washington
Square South:
at Institute Hail. 21S East 1O6th street
Bach and Handel" lecture recital by Thomas
Whitney Surette, at the Wadleigh High School,
10th street and Seventh avenue.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER g.
1.-THE Structure and Functions of the Healthy
Human Body" by DE- Theron w. Kilmer. at
Young Mems Institute. 222 Bowery.
art Its Nature and Function" by DIR. Daniel
A Huebsch. at the Harlem Young Mems
Christian Association, West 125th street
Them by Albert Gerard-Thiers. at the East
eide House Settlement, 10th street and East
River.
College at Public School 16o. 1OSth street and
Amsterdam avenue