LOWELL INSTITUTE LECTURES ANNOUNCED FOR WINTER TERM

Dr. William T. Sedgwick, Curator of the Lowell Institute, has announced five more courses of lectures for the season of 1920. These will begin after the Christmas holidays and will supplement the lectures which have been delivered thus far by Dr. T. M. Legge and Professor Levy-Bruhl. Professors C. H. Haskins LL. D., '08, R. H. Lord '06, and A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department of the University, will be the three lecturers who will discuss the problem of peace. Professor E. B. Hill of the Music Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music." The other lectures will be delivered by Talcott Williams, professor emeritus of journalism and late director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, who will discuss "the Ottoman Empire," and Professor Maurice de Wulf of the University of Louvain, who will speak on "Monastic Life in the Heart of the Middle Ages."

Haskins and Lord on Problems of Peace.

Professors Haskins and Lord, speaking on "Problems of the Peace Conference," will be the first to give one of these courses, and will speak on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock at Huntington Hall, beginning January 6. The topics will be as follows:

1. "Introduction, Problems and Methods of the Conference," January 6.

2. "Belgium and Denmark," January 9.

3. "Alsace-Lorraine," January 13.

4. "The Rhine and the Sarr," January 16.

5. "Poland," January 20.

6. "Austria," January 23.

7. "Hungary," January 27.

8. "The Balkans," January 30.

Six Lectures on Turkey.

Professor Williams' course on "The Ottoman Empire" will be given in six lectures on Mondays and Thursdays at 8 o'clock, beginning Monday, January 26, as follows:

1. "The Near East: The Land and the Peoples Now and in the Past," January 26.

2. "The Empire of the Turk, as it Is and as it Was," January 29.

3. "The Turk: His Use of Roman Law. Administration and the Army. Mohammedanism. Despotism and Massacre," February 2.

4. "The Kurd and Lesser Races Old and New, Sedentary and Nomad," February 5.

5. "The Arab: His Origin, His Conquests and His Present," February 9.

6. "The Christian Races: Armenian, Greek and Syrian," February 12.

The titles of the individual lectures in the other three courses are not yet ready to be announced. Professor Coolidge will lecture on "The New States of Central Europe.' This course will comprise eight lectures, to be given on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock, beginning on February 3.

Professor de Wulf will deliver six lectures on Mondays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock, commencing on February 16. Professor Hill will give eight lectures, on March 2, and every Tuesday and Friday thereafter for four weeks.

How to Apply for Tickets.

Admission to Huntington Hall will be by ticket, although sometimes a few seats are vacant after the time expires for the ticket-holders to pass the gate. Admission tickets to the first lecture of each course will be mailed, one to each applicant, in the order of application, until the supply is exhausted. Applications must be received at least two days before the beginning of any course by the Curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, and must be accompanied by stamped, addressed envelopes, one for each ticket desired.