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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

University Lectures

page 61

University Lectures.

A Lecture Endowment Fund, amonting to twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000), was created in 1875, by one of the early friends of the University, Mr. William Henry Smith, now a resident of Alton, Ill. It was given without any restrictions, except that the fund should be increased, if practicable, by accruing interest, to $30,000, which has been accomplished, and that no part of the principal should be expended. The income is now used for the support of lectures, with a view to the advancement of the interests of the University, and the benefit of the public. The lectures are free, so far as practicable, but an admission fee is charged when circumstances require.

Some of these lectures are given in the hall of the University to the general public; others, which may be called "Class-Room" or "Instruction Lectures," are given in smaller rooms, or in the Laboratories, to classes limited in number according to the nature of the subject treated, and are designed to furnish to all persons instruction similar to that given in the class-room work of the College and Polytechnic School.

The beginning of a fund for the encouragement of the study of American History has been made, by a gift of $5,000, by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of Boston, Mass., and several courses of lectures have been delivered upon this foundation.

It is hoped that this fund will soon be sufficiently increased to enable the University to provide for page 62 the thorough study of the history of the country and of its political institutions.

During the year ending June 15, 1882, the following lectures were delivered upon these foundations:
1.A course of four lectures upon the Jew in History, by Professor James K. Hosmer.
2.A course of four lectures upon London, by Professors Marshall S. Snow and Halsey C. Ives.
3.A course of eight lectures upon the History of the Constitution of the United States, by Professor Marshall S. Snow.
4.A course of five lectures by Mr. John Fiske, of Cambridge, Mass., upon American History.
5.A course of three lectures upon historical subjects, by Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., the English historical writer.
6.A course of thirty class-room lectures upon Thermo-Dynamics, by Professor Calvin M. Woodward.
7.A course of class-room lectures upon Steam-Engineering, by Professor Charles A. Smith.