Professor Cooke is too well known as an entertaining lecturer to need any introduction here, and the announcement that he intends to give a series of lectures on different cities in Italy will be welcome news to all who have heard him lecture before on subjects connected with foreign travel. Every year Professor Cooke gives some public lectures and he is always especially anxious to have the members of the freshman class come to hear him, as his remarks often bear upon the work done in the class room. The first lecture of the series will be on the city of Venice, and will be delivered next Thursday evening in Boylston Hall. The only drawback to these lectures is that the room in which they are given is invariably too small to accommodate all those who wish to attend, but it is the only available room in which the stereopticon-with which he generally illustrates his lectures-can be used to advantage.
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