The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-26
STEREOPTICON LECTURES.
Will Be Delivered at High School
By DR.. II. h. Powers Three
Nights, Beginning To-
Night.

1t has been announced from the In
dustrial Institute and the High School
that series of three stereopticon
lectures will be delivered under their
auspices at the High School, begin
ming tonight, by Prof. H. H. Powers,
Phi. D., of Boston. DR.. Powers is pres
ident of the bureau of university
travel, which amounts to being the
president of a university which gives
| its courses of lectures at various
points in Europe while en- route, in
stead of giving them at fixed place.
DR.. Powers university" has regular
organized courses in economics, his
tory, anthropology, art, history of
painting, history of sculpture, history
of architecture, etc. and, as these lee
lures are given usually while visiting
the very places, buildings, historic
structures, monuments, museums, etc,
to which they relate, DR.. Powers calls
it INSTRUCTION by the laboratory meth
3D." DR.. Powers has been professor
in Cornell and in Stanford universe
ties, and he has a full corps of uni
versity men in his travel faculty. He
has been a professor of economies,
but his own greatest lectures have
arisen out of his travel in Europe dur
ing fifteen years past, and out of his
appreciation and criticism of the
great paintings and sculptures of the
world. Perhaps his greatest lecture
is the one on Michaelangelo's wonder
full painting of the ceiling in the Sis
tine Chapel of the Vatican in Rome.
Prof Ellsworth Woodward, director
Of NewcOmb College Art School, in
New Orlans, said this was the great |
est art lecture he had ever heard. His
words were: 1T is simply tremen-
dous!" And then he aided: "It is |
by far the best art lecture | nave ever
heard" and he then said that he |
hoped he would some day have the |
chance to have this lecture delivered |
at Newcomb These statements by |
Professor Woodward were made in |
Rome one evening in August, 1897, just |
after DR.. Powers had finished giving |
the Sistine ceiling lecture to his uni
versity travel" class for that year
Professor Woodward has only by-l
chance met up with the university /
travel party that day in the Sistine
Chapel, and was then invited to at
tend the Powers lecture with them |
that night at the Hotel Suisse.
It was probably this Sistine ceiling
lecture of which the famous Amer /
lean sculptor. dorado Taft, made the
following statement (Which is being
used in the Powers advertisements):
"As he lighted those prodigious fig
ures with the flame of his eloQuence,
he seemed like another prophet of old
denouncing the pettiness and frivoli-
ties of an ungodly world. 1t was the
greatest art lecture l ever heard"
And Taft also said of another of DR..
Powers lectures: When he ceased
speaking, felt that the inspired word
of this extraordinary man had given
me one of the great hours of my life"
1t must therefore be recognized
clearly that Lafayette is fortunate in
having the opportunity to have
series of three lectures from such
master in his line-and for SO small a
cost. For the price which has been
obtained for these three lectures is
exactly the same as is being paid else
where for only one lecture. The OBJ