THE FOOD OF PLANTS, (6).

By Professor Edward B. Voorhees, A.M.

In these lectures will be discussed the constituents of plants, their sources and functions; farmyard and green manures, waste products and their composition, properties and uses of concentrated or artificial manures, the sources, composition and uses of phosphatic, nitrogenous and potassic compounds; methods of manufacture of prepared fertilizers. Considerable attention will also be given to economical methods of buying manures, the preparation of formulas and the methods of application and use for the various crops.

ANIMAL NUTRITION, (6).

By Professor Edward B. Voorhees, A.M.

In these lectures the principles of nutrition will be discussed with particular reference to the formation of the various animal products. This will include a study of the composition of the animal body and its relation to food, the composition of fodders and feeds, their digestibility and proper use for the various animals, the relative value of natural and artificial grasses, the formation and improvement of permanent pastures, the buying of feeds and the preparation of rations, and the manurial value of feeds. The principles of breeding and the importance of pure breeds of domestic animals, and their relations to improved farming; breeds for the dairy, dairy management, the composition of milk and of the various dairy products will also receive attention.

HOW CROPS Grow, (6).

By Professor Byron D. Halsted, Sc.D.

A course of lectures upon the structure and uses of the various organs of vegetation, together with a consideration of some of the more serious enemies to cultivated plants and methods of overcoming them; weeds, their habits, seeding capacity and methods of treatment; dodders, and other parasites, rusts, mildews, smuts, blights, etc.; spraying trees and herbs with fungicides. These lectures are illustrated with the lantern and by means of numerous wall-charts, maps and the specimens themselves.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, (6).

By Professor John B. Smith, Sc.D.

In this course only so much anatomy and physiology of insects will be given as to make intelligible the philosophy of the application of insecticides; transformation and reproduction of insects; injurious insects, insecticides; time of application; when remedial and when preventive; formulas; fertilizers as insecticides. These lectures will be illustrated by models and lantern slides.

APPLICATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS, (6).

By Professor F. C. Van Dyck, Ph.D.

Introductory lecture on matter, force, work, energy, power; the mechanical powers, levers, pulleys, wheel and axle, inclined plane and screw; principles of water-supply, water-power, windmills, etc.; heating and ventilation; the steam engine and its applications; principles of electricity as applied to lightning protection, alarms and small power.

CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, BRIDGES AND DRAINS, (6).

By Professor A. A. Titsworth, M.S., C.E.

Telford, Macadam and other roads in relations to local conditions and cost of construction, illustrated by diagrams; economics of good roads; bridges on country roads, best and cheapest structures, sizes of timber; graphical methods of determining strains; drainage, best European practice with applications to conditions of climate and soil here, simple methods of leveling for drains.

GEOLOGY, (6).

By Professor Frank L. Nason, A.M.

The formation of the world, its crust, ocean basins, mountains, sedimentary deposits, rocks; succession of life, fossil animals and plants; volcanoes and earthquakes; how minerals are brought within reach of man; water, hot and cold springs, alluvium, deltas, flood-plains, ice, glaciers, moraines, etc.; formation of soils, their composition and use; inorganic matter as food and in the arts.

The Fine Arts.

GREEK, HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART.

By Professor Edgar S. Shumway, Ph.D.

1. Archaic Greek art-the temple and marble sculpture; the riper archaic. 2. Period of the great masters-(a) The dawn-Pythagoras, Myron. (b) Epoch of Pheidias-the art of Pheidias, the Parthenon and the Zeus of Olympia, the Theseion, the Erectheion, the temple of Nike, the art of Polykleitos. (c) Epoch of the Corinthian style-Paionios, Kephisodotos. (d) Epoch of Praxiteles-the art of Praxiteles, of Skopas, ethical pathos, the Mausoleum, the Niobids, the art of Lysippos, idealizing portraiture. 3. Hellenistic art-Pergamon, Rhodes, Samothrace, proportions, heads, drapery, portraiture, athletes, barbarians, children, physical pathos, the gigantomachy of Pergamon. 4. Roman art-(a) The last century of the Republic. (b) The Empire.

OLD ITALIAN AND MODERN FRENCH ART, (13).

By Professor John C. Van Dyke, L.H.D.

Early Christian and Mediæval painting; Romanesque and Gothic painting; Early Renaissance-the Florentines; the Umbrians, Bolognese and Paduans; High Renaissance-the great Florentines, Bartolommeo and Albertinelli, Michael Angelo and Raphael, Giulio Romano and the Roman school; Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio-the early Venetians; the great Venetians, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Paolo VeroneseDecadence in Italy and rise of French painting; Classicists of the First Empire; Romanticists and New-Greeks; Realists and Naturalists-peasant painters; the figure under the Semi-Classicists and history painters.

History.

THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN HISTORY,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

This course is a study of the Renaissance and Reformation periods. The rise of the spirit of liberty and individualism; the revival of learning and the delight in beauty, manifesting itself in the Renaissance of painting, sculpture and architecture; the invention of printing; the great voyages and discoveries; the formation of modern nationalities; the beginnings of the modern physical sciences. The Renaissance and Reformation were closely related. The latter will be studied from the religious, political and social standpoint. The sources for the history of the period will be studied so far as is possible.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

The Revolution will be studied in its relation to France and to the other European States. Attention will be directed to its causes, remote and immediate; to the course of affairs from the opening of the States General, through the Reign of Terror; to the rise of Napoleon and to his career as affecting society; the politics and the geography of Europe; to the men, measures, and particularly Constitutions of France through a quarter of a century.

THE FORMATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS A NATION,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

The course will consider the causes tending to produce union among the American Colonies, the rise of the national idea, the formation of the Constitution, the development of the nation during the first twenty-five years of its existence. It will also be a study of prominent men and their measures contributing to the establishment of the Constitution.

VITAL FORCES IN MODERN HISTORY, (6).

By Professor James F. Riggs, D.D.

History as a fine art, and history as a moral science, nature of historical evidence; beginnings of modern life, republics of Italy, free cities, their guilds, wealth, etc.; the educational uprising, universities, inventions and discoveries; balance of power as a political dogma; re-organization of society by the double process of decay and growth; unification of Italy, the romance and the tragedy of Italian history.

THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, (6).

By Professor James F. Riggs, D.D.

Causes; social and political re-organization, papal system and monastic system, the revival of learning; reform in Germany, life and triumph of Martin Luther; in Holland, relation to Spain, William the Silent; the "Thirty Years War," Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu, treaty of Westphalia; reform in England, Tyndale and the Bible, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell; consequences of the Reformation.

THE EASTERN QUESTION, (6).

By Professor James F. Riggs, D.D.

Asiatic empires, the Orient of to-day; Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Arabs and Turks, the Ottoman empire; Constantinople, its history under the Byzantine emperors and under the sultans, its topography and fortifications; the Crimean war, Sebastopol, the Black Sea fleet and the treaty of Paris; English power in India, rivalry between Russia and Great Britain, the Sepoy mutiny; the present outlook for the East.

THE ENGLISH BIBLE, (6).

Literature.

By Professor William Rankin Duryee, D.D.

History of the versions from Anglo-Saxon times, sketches of leading translators, general view of contents with special attention to literary force; the Old Testament, historical books; poetical books, with characteristics of Hebrew poetry; prophetical books, with sketch of the development of the prophetic functions; the New Testament, general characteristics, analysis of the first Gospel and general description of the remaining Gospels; Acts of the Apostles with analysis of contents and brief description of the Epistles of St. Paul; nature and style of the last Epistles and the Revelation.

ENGLISH LITERARY STYLE,

By E. S. Nadal, A.M.

The intention of this course is to give suggestions by which a sense may be formed of English literary style; it is proposed to do this in lectures on

Thackeray, White of Selborne, Byron, Gray and Collins, Wordsworth, Pope, Matthew Arnold, Johnson, De Quincey, Bryant, Lowell, American humorists.

STUDIES IN ROMANTIC POETRY,

By Lincoln R. Gibbs, A.M.

This course will be mainly devoted to the romantic poetry of the period 1789-1832, including, however, some discussion of Burns and Lamb. The attempt will be made to study individual writings and men rather than general literary movements. There will be one lecture as an introduction to the period; one each on Burns, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Lamb and Keats; two on Wordsworth, and three on Shelley.

Philosophy.

THE WORLD'S GREAT THINKERS,

By Professor Jacob Cooper, D.D., D.C.L.

A course of lectures on mental philosophy, treating the subject historically. Introduction: Wonder originated philosophy, seeking reality under phenomena. Socrates-the talker; Plato-the ideal philosopher; Aristotlethe logical systematizer; Lucretius-the skeptic; Cicero-the dealer in second hand; Abelard-the lover; Aquinas-the hair splitter; Descartesthe renovator; Spinoza-the pantheist; Leibnitz-the universal genius. Pascal-the thinker; Kant-the transcendentalist; Hegel-the obscure; Schopenhauer-the pessimist; Bacon-the philosophic statesman; Lockethe sensationalist; Hume-the agnostic; Berkeley-the idealist; Reidthe philosopher of common sense; Schleiermacher-the philosopher of religion; Hamilton-the critic; Porter-the expositor.

How WE KNOW,

By Reverend John B. Thompson, D.D.

This introductorp course on psychology includes these topics: The six senses; sensation, illusion, hallucination, feeling, attention, consciousness; space, time, cause, identity and similarity, perception; memory, association, dreams, somnambulism, hypnotism, imagination; reasoning, judg ment, the concept, deduction, induction; the beast mind, the human mind.

ASTRONOMY,

Science.

By Professor Robert W. Prentiss, M.S.

The first six lectures will deal with the solar system, treating of the sun and its phenomena; spectrum analysis and the constitution of the sun; the moon, its appearance, motions, scenery and physical conditions; the ter