New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
BOARD OF EDUCATION LECTURES.
Public Evening Courses to Begin This Week
The Extensions Planned

Further extension of the system of adult educa-
ton by means OF public lectures is planned by the
Board of Education for the coming week. Twenty
five centres will be opened in Manhattan and
The Bronx. and there will be seventeen new
courses. Ten of the centres viii open to-
morrow evening. two Tuesday, Wednes
day, four on Thursday and one on Friday. Up in
The Bronx, on Monday evening, six public schools
and lectures will he opened.
Public School 81. Sth street. east of Avenue 3.
will be used for public lectures for first time
this year, the first TO be delivered Thursday
evening by stephen Jenkins broadway. Old
and New" The same evening the lectures will he
resumed at the Hebrew Technical Institute Stuy-
vesant street near Third avenue. Professor J.
Newton Gray will deliver the FIRST OF his course
OF lectures on general physics The lectures in
this course will be illustrated with experiments
Down on the East side. at Public School o.. Hes
ter and Essex streets. another scientific
will begin week. On Monday evening W. Wal
lace Ker will give the opening lecture In hts
on Principles and Practices OF Electrical Engi-
neering." At Public School 23. 165th st and linton
ave. instead OF at the Morris High School as
originally planned Professor Ernest r. Won
Nardrofr will begin Monday evening his lectures
on Light and Color with talk on The Nature
OF Light and Color
AT Public School . 14Ist street and Edgecoube
avenue the first of course OF eight lectures on
principles OF General and Human Evolution Will
be delivered Thursday evening by Professor
Henry f. Champion. OF Columbia On Monday
evening ten new centres will he opened In Mauhat-
tan. Al Public School 81 No. 52S West 18th street
Alfred w Martin will deliver the inaugural lecture
on Seattle and the Pacific Northwest" and on
Thursday evening. at the same place Willis
Fletcher Johnson will begin his course on Famous
Americans" The following evening Mr. johnson
will begin course Territorial Expansion at
Institute Hail. No. 2lS East lO6th street. At In
stitute Hall. Tuesday evening. Elwood @
Tewkcsbury will begin his lectures on The Far
East"
Public School Il. No. 90 East 9Ith street will be
opened on Monday evening. whom George Fitch
will lecture on "China's Awakening" and on Tues
day at Public School p. Mott street near Spring
Inslee II. Berry will deliver the first lecture in his
course First Aid Public school s. in West
2Sth street will also be opened on Monday night
On Tuesday evening Professor Robert w. Prem
tss will continue his lectures astronomy al the
Wadlegh High School Nth street and Seventh
avenue. and at Public School 63 Sd street and First
avenue Clarence de Vaux RGyer will begin his
course on Composers and Music" Another course
on First Aid To the Injured" will begin On
Wednesday evening when DR. Francis A Scratch
ley will lecture at Public School 16 I45th street
and Amsterdam avenue. Manhattan. At the
Young Mems Hebrew Association Hail. 92d street
and Lexington avenue. DR. Daniel. A Huebsch will
lecture on Art Its Nature and Function this
being the first in his on PATHWAYS to the
Fields of Art" The same evening AZ the Harlem,
Young Mems Christian Association Hall No :
West l2Sth street, Theodore |. Jones will continue
his course on illuminating Engineering"
On Friday night William Farley will begin his
course on Government of European Countries"
with description of the government of England
at Public School 1884, s5th street and First avenue
At the Young Mems Benevolent Association No
81 East Broadway Michael NJ. Davis. jr will de-
liver the first lecture in his of four on
present Problems of American Citizenship"