MISCELLANY PRINTED MATTER [*Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1911--13*] The Brooklyn Institute of Arts And Sciences Prospectus For 1911-1912 Central Office, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lafayette Avenue. [*See Page 30*] THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES [*I have 3 lectures --*] PROSPECTUS FOR 1912-1913 CENTRAL OFFICE, THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LAFAYETTE AVENUE. See Next Page --- The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences The Department of Sociology Prof. Franklin H. Giddings, Ph.D., L.L.D. President Miss Susan W. Hoagland Secretary Season of 1911-1912 (First Season) [Reprint from the Prospectus of the Institute] Courses of Lectures I. Six Lectures on "Sociology" by Prof. Franklin H. Giddings, Ph.D., L.L.D., of Columbia University, President of the Department of Sociology, on Thursday evenings: Oct. 5--"The Practical Value of Social Theory." Oct. 12--"Some Possibilities of Civilization." Oct. 19--"The American Experiment." Oct. 26--"The Significance of Race." Nov. 2--"The Menace of Vice and Crime." Nov. 9--"Vital Questions of Social Economy." II. Six Lectures on "The Social Reformers of the Nineteenth Century," by President Samuel McCune Lindsay, Ph.D., L.L.D., and other lecturers of the New York School of Philanthropy, on Friday evenings: Nov. 17--"The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury and Child Labor." Apr. 24—“Systems of Compensation for Industrial Accidents.” May 1—“Compulsory Illness Insurance in Germany and the United Kingdom.” May 8—“Methods of Providing for Indigent Old Age.” May 15—“Adaptation of these Systems to Conditions in the United States” V. Five Lectures on “The Negro in the United States,” by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Member of the Board of Education, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoons : Nov. 21—“The Bright Side of a Dark Subject.” Nov. 28—“The Progress of Colored Women.” Dec. 5—“Uncle Sam and the Sons of Ham.” Dec. 12—“The Strongest for the Weakest.” Dec. 19—“Harriet Beecher Stowe.” VI. A Series of Lectures on “Public Health,” to be given during the Winter. Arrangements for these lectures are in progress. VII. One or More Lectures on the Labor Situation will be given during the Autumn and Winter. VIII. A Series of Conferences on Sociological Subjects will be conducted on Tuesday evenings, at the Academy of Music : Oct. 31—Conference to be conducted by Mr. James Jenkins, Jr., Secretary of the Anti-Tuberculosis Committee of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, on “The Work of the Committee on Anti-Tuberculosis.” Nov. 14—Conference to be conducted by Edward T. Devine Ph.D., on “Misery and its Causes.” Nov. 21—Conference to be conducted by Edwin R. L. Gould, Ph.D. Page 150 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GEORGE WASHINGTON VOLUME X. NO. 7 FEBRUARY 22 1913 ALFRED BRENNAN, FECIT: MCMVIII ACADEMY OF MUSIC: SEASON 1912-13 THE BULLETON OF THE BROOKELYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CONTENTS PAGE THE BURTON HOLMES LECTURES - - - - - 143 FRONTISPIECE: "ENTHRONED," BY BESSIE PORTER VONNOH - - 144 "THE HEART AND THE HAND," A LECTURE BY HELEN KELLER - 147 "THE HOUR OF DESPONDENCY," A PAINTING BY ALBERT HERTER - 148 THE STUDY OF THE DRAMA AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (II) 148 SIX LECTURES ON DECORATIVE ART BY MR. FRANK ALVAH PARSONS - 148 WHAT THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY IS DOING FOR BROOKLYN - 150 THE NEGRO RACE IN THE UNITED STATES; THREE LECTURES BY MRS. [?] MARY CHURCH TERRELL [?] - - - - - 150 RECEPTION AT THE INSTITUTE MUSEM - - - - 152 SYNOPSIS OF MR. ANGUS HAMILTON'S LECTURE ON THE BALKAN WAR 152 EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 3D - - - 154 PROFESSOR HENRI BERGSON - - - - - 155 THE CHARLES DICKENS READINGS, BY MR. FRANK SPEAIGHT - 156 THE WAGNER CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL CONCERT - - - 157 MR. ANGUS HAMILTON'S LECTURE ON THE BALKAN WAR - - 158 THE SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON OUR NATIONAL PARKS, BY MR. HERBERT W. GLEASON - - - - - 160 LECTURE BY MISS HELEN KELLER ON THE HEART AND THE HAND 162 MUSIC NOTES - - - - - - - 164 CHESS COLUMN - - - - - - - 164 ART NOTES - - - - - - INSIDE BACK COVER COPYRIGHTED BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 1913 VOLUME X NUMBER 7 FEBRUARY 22, 1913 PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES BROOKLYN-NEW YORK CITY WEEKLY, EXCEPT DURING JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST SINGLE NUMBER, 5 CENTS ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 POSTAGE (IF SENT BY MAIL) THREE CENTS A NUMBER TO MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE FREE DAVID SAPIRSTEIN Management E. H. Colell Piano Recital ACADEMY OF MUSIC MUSIC HALL Friday Eve'g, Feb.28 at 8.15 Reserved Seats, 50c. to $1.50 at Wissner Piano Warerooms 55 Flatbush Ave., opp. Livingston St. Wissner Piano Used Distinctive Correspondence Paper Our expert advice and service are at your disposal for the designing of classy corre- spodence paper, uniting careful and dignified printing and the best writing paper, such as Crane's Japanese Linen, Irish Linen, Old Hamp- shire Bond, Stratmore and Old Berkshire Mills. We also make bookplates and print them on genuine Japanese vellum. BROOKLYN EAGE JOB PRINTING DEPT. Washington and Johnson Sts., Brooklyn-New York Telephone Main 6200 150 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES veloped, and will show how they may be consistently used at the present time. The course will deal, not only with furniture, textiles, rugs and decorative motifs, but with lesser articles in household adornment. The dates and subjects of the individual lectures will be as follows: Feb. 18--"Art Applied to Interior Decoration." Feb. 25--"Color--Its Source, Meaning and its Application to Interior Furnishing." Mar. 4--"The Use and abuse of historic Periods in Modern Furnishing." Mar. 11--"The Place and Meaning of the French Decorative Periods." Mar. 18--"The Application of the English Period to American Life." Mar. 25--"The Choice, Framing and Hanging of Pictures in Homes." FRANK A. PARSONS, M.A. WHAT THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY IS DOING FOR THE PEOPLE OF BROOKLYN The most salient feature of a public library, the measure of its success and usefulness as a vital force in any community, is indicated largely by the number of its books which reach the hands and homes of the people during the course of the year. From this standpoint the Brooklyn Public Library gives a good account of itself for 1912 and proves that it has not been idle. The four million mark was passed and 4,380,779 volumes were circulated during the year among its 294,535 members, an average of 15 volumes per borrower. In other words, each one of the 735,858 volumes (75,424 of which were added this year) on the shelves of the 28 branches of the system, its 3 stations, 10 deposit stations and its Library for the Blind, circulated on an average of 6 times in the course of twelve months. Of the 75,425 volumes above mentioned, 8,403 were new and did not include duplicates of titles already in the library. Though the percentage of fiction (68%), adult and juvenile, exceeded that of any other class of reading, as usual in this and all general public libraries, the library is not to be considered as having done merely recreational work in this field, for it is scarcely an exaggeration to state that greater care is exercised in the selection of fiction for this library than in almost any other class of books. The wants and needs of the young people of our community, too, are being considered in every way, and the best literary pabulum is being placed before them in tempting form, as is evidence by the fact that the library added 26,035 volumes specially adapted for our future citizens, and the little readers, varying in age from 6 to 14 years, availed themselves handsomely of the privilege, as shown by the year's figures, 1,561,783, one-third of the entire circulation. Some of the most important and helpful work of the library never or rarely sees the light of public print, virtue here being beyond cavil its own reward, though we may regard it perhaps as bread thrown upon the waters. That is the work done in the Reference Department of the Library, its main office at 197 Montague Street, where congregate scholars and students and specialists along the lines of every known profession, trade and calling. No quest for information is here considered too trifling to be carefully and thoroughly attended to and no seeker after facts too troublesome, whatever his station, rank or calling. The aim of the library, from its Board of Directors and its Chief Librarian, to the most recently appointed assistant, is to serve the Brooklyn public as satisfactorily and as expeditiously as possible. THERESA HITCHLER THE NEGRO RACE IN OUR COUNTRY One of the most competent, delightful and interesting lecturers at the Institute last season was MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, of Washington. Mrs. TERRELL has taken a profound and active interest in the education of the negro in Southern Ohio where she was a teacher for a number of years, in Washington where she has been a member of the Board of Education for a longer period than any other member of the present Board, and where she has been able to exert a wide influence on the education of the negroes of the south. She will give a short course again at the Institute this year on successive Thursday afternoons in the lecture hall of the Academy of Music. The dates and subjects of the individual lectures in the course are as follows: THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WENDELL PHILLIPS Volume VII. No. 13 December 2 1911 ACADEMY OF MUSIC SEASON 1911-12 354 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES as we are in no danger of expending too great energies or resources in research work. And there is something to be said in favor of research work pure and simple. Some men—very few—are qualified for research work alone. Most men do better research work because they are teachers as well, either as college or university professors or as creators of teaching museums. Because we have such splendid institutions as The Smithsonian Institution, the Carnegie Institution and the Rockefeller Institute, is the more reason why our museums, our universities and other education institutions should redouble their research work and this, as we should expect, is precisely what they are doing and are striving more and more to do. THE INSTITUTE BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC BUILDING Annual Subscription, $2.00 Single Numbers, 5 cents To Members Free Postage extra, 3 cents ——————————————————- Life Membership in the Institute . . . . . . $100.00 Associate Membership, Initiation Fee . . 5.00 “ “ Annual Dues. . 6.00 ——————————————————- Officers of the Board of Trustees A. AUGUSTUS HEALY .........................................President Hon. CHARLES A. SCHIEREN.............First Vice-President Hon. CARLL H. DE SILVER.............Second Vice-President Col. ROBERT B. WOODWARD..........Third Vice-President CLINTON W. LUDLUM.........................................Treasurer HERMAN STUTZER, C.E........................................Secretary Officers of the Council REV. RAMES M. FARRAR, D.D..............................President J. HERBERT LOW, M.A...........................................Secretary Director Prof. FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, M.A., LL.D. ——————————————————- EVENTS FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING DECEMBER 11th MON., DEC. 11. Department of Philology. Fifth in a Course of six Lectures on “The Child in Literature and in Nature,” by Mrs. Agnes McCleland Dalton, of New York. Subject : The Poet and Nature, the Child and Nature. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P.M. MON., DEC. 11. Department of Music. Fourth in a Series of five Lecture Recitals on “The Elements of Musical Composition,” by Mr. Daniel Gregory Mason, of New York. Subject : The Interaction of Themes (continued) ; Classic, Sonata and Modern Forms ; Dramatic Structure, assisted by Mr. Carl E. Reinecke, Clarinet. Mason & Hamlin Piano Used. Music Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P.M. MON., DEC. 11. Departments of Fine Arts and Painting. Fifth in a Course of six Lectures on “The Story of Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century,” by Charles H. Caffin, B.A., of New York. Subject : Genre : Terborch, Ver Meer, Jan Steen, illustrated by lantern photographs. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P.M. TUES, DEC. 12. Departments of Sociology and Political Science. Fourth in a Course of five Lectures on “The Negro in the United States,” By Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D.C. Subject : The Strongest for the Weakest. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P.M. TUES., DEC. 12. Department of Sociology. Conference to be conducted by Prof. Charles B. Davenport, Ph.D., Director of the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor. Subject : Eugenics. Science Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P.M. TUES., DEC 12. Department of Physics. Fourth in a Course of five Lectures on “Light,” by Prof. Robert W. Wood, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University. Subject : Optical Experiments with Metallic Vapors, illustrated by experimental demonstrations. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P.M. TUES., DEC. 12. Departments of Microscopy and Zoology. Lecture by Prof. Jacques Loeb, Ph.D., of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Subject : The Mechanistic Conception of Life, illustrated by charts. Science Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P.M. TUES., DEC. 12. Department of Astronomy. The Observatory of the Department will be open to Members of the Institute who present the Weekly Ticket for observation of the Planets Saturn and Mars, and Nebulae. Mr. Albert J. Brooks, President of the Department, in charge. Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8 to 9.30 P.M. TUES., DEC. 12. Huntington Branch. Lecture Recital by Mr. Alvah Glover Salmon, of New York. Subject : Russian Music. Bijou Opera House, Huntington, 8.15 P.M. The Third Lecture Recital BY Mr. DANIEL GREGORY MASON ON MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27th SUBJECT : THE INTERACTION OF THEMES IN A MOVEMENT To the rhythm of time-unites (Lecture I.) and the rhythm of keys and cadences (Lecture II.) is added a rhythm of moods or emotions. Climax and Abatement, how obtained. The simple musical forms. Illustrations : I. Passages from the Second Symphony of Brahms and the Pathetique Symphony of Tschaikowsky. With Mr. Charles Rabold, Baritone. II. English Folk-songs : (a) “Hunting the Hare.” (b) “Cavalier Song.” (c) “I attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly,” PURCELL [*Page 131*] THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLY INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JOSEPH H. CHOATE Volume X. No. 6 February 15 1913 ACADEMY OF MUSIC: SEASON 1912-13 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 131 Thurs., Feb. 27. Departments of Political Science and Sociology. First in a Course of three Lectures on "The Negro Race in the United States." by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Member of the Board of Education, Washington, D.C. Subject: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Development of Christian Womanhood in the South. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P. M. Thurs., Feb 27. Department of Philosophy. Third in a Course of six Lectures on "Contemporary Philosophy," by Prof William Turner, S.T.D., of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. Subject: Pantheism. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P. M. Thurs., Feb 27. Garden City Branch. Lecture by Leon H. Vincent, M.A., of Boston. Subject: Henry Thoreau. Assembly Room, City Garden Club, Garden City, 8.30 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Departments of Dramatic Art and Fine Arts. Last in a Series of three Dramatic Interpretations and Impersonations of Modern Dramas by Miss Louise Wallace Hackney, of Chicago. Subject: "The House of Rimmon," by Henry van Dyke. Music Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Departments of Fine Arts and Painting. Third in a Course of six Lectures on "German and Spanish Art," by Miss Harriette H. Winslow, of Buffalo. Subject: Hans Holbein, illustrated. The number attending this course is limited to 200, and all persons attending are required to provide themselves with note-books and sets of photographs illustrating the lectures, which are furnished by Miss Winslow at cost, $1.50 for the note-books and pictures. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 4 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Departments of Philology and Political Science. Second in the Course of six Lectures on "European States and their Problems," by Prof. Jerome H. Raymond, M.A., L.L.D., of Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. Subject: Berlin and the War of Races in Austria-Hungary, illustrated by lantern photographs. Lecture Hall, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Department of Mineralogy. Conference to be conducted by Mr. A. E. Anderson, of the American Museum of Natural History. Subject: The Orthoclastic or Potash-Soda Division of Rocks: Their History, Structure and Relationships, illustrations with polarized light and rock sections. Science Room, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Departments of Astronomy and Mathematics. Fourth in a Course of five Conferences on "Mathematical Astronomy," by Garrett P. Serviss, B.S., Vice-President of the Department of Astronomy. Subject: The Force of Gravity on Different Astronomical Bodies, illustrated by lantern photographs and black-board drawings. Art Room, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Department of Photography. Demonstration by W. H. Zerbe, the fifth in a series. Subject: Home Portraiture by Flash Light. Department Studio, Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., 8.15 P. M. Fri., Feb 28. Jamaica Branch. Dramatic Reading by Mrs. Elizabeth Pooler Rice, of Boston. Subject: "Miss Hobbs," by Jerome K. Jerome. Only the Members of the Jamaica Branch admitted on the Weekly Ticket. Masonic Hall, Union Ave., Jamaica, 8.15 P. M. Sat., Mar. 1. Science Room. Conference to be conducted by Miss Antonia C. Maury, of Hastings on Hudson. Subject: Variability and Revolution of Starts, illustrated by lantern photographs. These meetings are open to all members of the Institute interested in the subjects presented. Science Room, Academy of Music, 8.15 P. M. Sun., Mar. 2. Department of Philology and Political Science. Fifth in a Course of six Addresses on "Two Distinguished Oxfordians,--John Wyclif and John Wesley," by the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, D.D., LL.D., Pastor of the Central Congregational Church; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute. 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