The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-19
LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY.
DR.. Sayre and DR.. Barnwel Talk Be.
fore Summer School.

University, July S-(SpeciaD One of
the most entertaining and Instructive lee
lures of the Summer school course was
delivered last night on the subject of
"Wireless Telegraphy," by DIR. Herbert
A. Sayre, professor of physics in the
university. 1t was made. doubly interest
ing by the use of a wireless instrument
on the stage, by means of which a num-
Der of messages were sent through a
space of several feet. Before giving prac-
teal illustrations DR.. Sayre described
the various means of message transmits
sion from the time that signal fires were
used to the present day, when the tele-
graph is the most reliable method in use.
He pointed out that by slight perfecting
of the wireless system the present method
would be supplanted; but he said, that
there seems to be at present, obst2 cles
almost insurmountable He then ~ a
brief history of the development Of he
wireless system. showing that the prin-
ciples underlying it have been known
for a half a century or more. but that
only in very recent years have they been
put into practical use Marconi, the great
expert in America, having sent the first
message across the Atlantic in 1901 Be-
sides giving a number of demonstrations
of the practical use of the wireless. the
speaker showed a number of lantern
slides, showing in detail the different
parts of the apparatus, and also a num-
Der of wireless stations.
AS fine a lecture from an artistic and
literary point of view as has ever beer
delivered before the Summer school was
the one that DIR. Charles II. Barnwell OF
the university faculty gave this morning
at the general assembly on the subject
of "Tennyson as an Artist" DR.. Barn
well showed thorough conversancy will
his subject, which he treated in mos
sympathetic manner.
He said that the student of Tennysor
is first impressed with two facts: First
that Tennyson was characteristic repre-
sentative of his age; second, that he e.
pressed himself as a master artist. Ano
il was to this latter phase that DR.. Barn
well confined himself in his lecture. He
said that in youth Tennyson showed 6
poetic bent, and that in his earliest vol
umes careful and discriminating critic:
found a distinct note of genius-a de
lightfu sense of sound and a wonderful
dantiness of expression. He then reac
volume, in which there is a notable eX
preston of tenderness and sorrow and q
haunting melody of rhymth. Cruelty
slashed by most OF the critics of his day
Tennyson was for ten years silenced, but
not stopped from work. On the contrary
he worked necessarily, profting by the
criticism. So it was that when his next
volume, which showed a marvellous adj
vance in technique, appeared, II was
received with enthusiasm.
OF the two styles of poetic compost
tion-the pure and the ornate-Tennyson
used the latter almost exclusively the
one of his poems. Dora is a perfect
type of the pure. AS for the qualities
of his style DIR. Barnwell said that four
stand out conspicuously, viz: Marvellous
adaptation of sound to sense, ALTERATION
antithess and felicity of phrasing These
qualities were all illustrated with selec-
tons from various poems. DR. Baruwell
next commented briefly on THE Idylls
of the King" and I'm Memoriam,' and
closed with delightful reading OF
Break, Break, Break and Crossing the
Bar
Tomorrow afternoon from to $3.50 in
the physical laboratory. DIR. Sayre will
exhibit the workings of the X-ray. All
those who desire TO see it can come at
any time between these hours.