The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-03
26 LECTURES IN
 PUBLIC COURSE Excellent List of Speakers Ar ranged by New Haven Uni versity Extension
 Center.
FIRST ONE WEDNESDAY
Great Demand for Tickets--Ernest Thompson Seton and Dr, Con- we'll First Two to
 Speak.

The Public Lecture Course under the auspices of the New Haven Univer- sity Extension Center Cl90s-l9O9) starts next "Wednesday evening, Oct. ', at College Street hall at o'clock The doors will be opened at I.30.
 The circular issued gves a list of twenty-six lectures between Oct and l April inclusive; most of them on Wednesday evenings, few on Fridays and Mondays and one on Thursday. There will probably be three or four more lectures added to the course later
 The price of the course tickets. ad- hitting to all the lectures, etc, is three | dollars (naking the admission to each l lecture almost nominaD. These course
 tickets may be obtained at the Free Public Library on Church street. Sin gle admission tickets are fifty cents These can be obtained at the Free Pub
 lie Library or at the door (of College
 Street halD on evenings of lectures.
 The scope of the lectures and enter
 tainments this season includes litera-
 ture. art, music and the drama and are
 exceptionally meritorlous. How mer. | itorious, interesting and entertaining
 they are. is evidenced by the number
 of out-of-town people who attend them notwithstanding the extra time and
 expense incurred These lectures have
 become a notable feature of New Ha.
 ven life and are spoken of throughout
 the country as one of several great ad.
 vantages offered to residents through
 the university
 Each lecture and entertainment
 would warrant extended comment dlt
 space permit. The lecture next Wednes
 day evening is by tDr. Russell H. Con
 well of Philadelphia on "Artemu
 Ward. the American Humorist." pr
 Conwell is pastor of the largest Bap
 list church in America. The demand fo
 admission to his church is go grea
 that tickets for the sseats are issued
 the same as at secular entertainment
 pr, Conwell's lecture, Acres of Dia
 monds, fnas been delivered by hin
 nearly seven thousand times His lee ture Wednesday evening on Artemu
 Ward (the initial lecture of the course
 Is new one and as such will b
 sought with added interest.
 Ernest Thompson Seton, who lee
 lures the following Wednesday even 4 Ing COct tO on "Wild Ways of Tam
 Beasts" is great naturalist. autho
 and writer for our leading magazines
 His books are among those in mos demand at our public libraries, MT
 seton owns large estate, known a I "Windygoul" al Cos Cob, Conn. Here
 upon his invitation. every summe
 scores of boys go into Indian camps
 Mir. Seton acting as Chief Sachem. H,
 Is q great lover and student of natur, and his lecture for this course, whlcl will be Illustrated. Is very edlfying ant interesting
 Mrs. Philip snowdon of London (wif of the member of parliament for Black
 burn, England), who lectures Wednes day. Oct. q, on Peeps at Parliamen Through q Woman's Eyes"-persona and anecdotal, Is a close friend of Mrs Randolph Churchill, now Mrs. Corn wallis West. Mrs Snowdon was one O the founders and officers of the famou Primrose League of England. Mrs Snowdon fig making visit of five O six weeks in this country. During he stay she will have lectured at almos all the leading female universities Il this country Rev. pr. Aked tMi Rockefeler's pastor) after listening [ Mrs Snowdon in England, said: "Sh s the greatest woman speaker sine Frances Willard" Mrs Snowdon's SO cial position in life, her exceptiona talents and ability as speaker and tn subject selected for her lecture in Ne, Haven leaves little to he said as { the interest it will arouse.
 Prof Edward Howard Griggs C Montclair N J., who delivers the nes \ two lectures Oct 23, 30 and also on
 on Nov 6, will speak of Great Auto \ biographies s'-"Types and Problems ( { Manhood and Womanhood, "Joh Stuart Mill"--an admirable educatio
 and the recovery from It. 'Eugenie d { Guerin-the Woman of the Old Rt \ 2ime" and "Sonya Kovaleysky--th chnlllCL between lnNe ana am Dll10n, I0 lecture loving audiences of New Ha ven need only the announcement ! Prof Griggs' subjects. He is a grea favorite here. Tho same welcome greet him in other cities When he lecture \ in Boston the great Fremont Temple | filled He was professor for numbt of years in the Leland Stanford un L versity of California. His thoughts al ' beautiful his incidents interesting an instructive and his deductions scholar N ly. His talks hold an audience's a h tention and interest to the end N Of Mrs Francis Carters dramatic r. E cital, Nov 4; the Oratorio Artists, No il, and the Cecilia Operetta, Nov. i N and the famous speakers that folio 'N through the course attention will M invited later,
 II Many have been anxlously awaitir M this announcement. The course ticke N can be procured from now on day IN evening at the Free Public Library ( H Church or at the door on evenings IN lectures. The first lecture Is next We, N nesday evening. Oct, :, commencing IN o'clock, in College Street hall ib a-~---~--------.---..------------s
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