Professor J. P. Mahaffy, D.C.L., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, will deliver the first lecture of a series of eight free public lectures on "Modern Civilization and Greek Genius" offered by the Lowell Institute, in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of tonight's lecture is "The Causes which gave the Old Greeks Pre-eminence."
Admission tickets may be obtained by applying by mail to the Curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, and enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for each ticket desired.
The subjects and dates of the remaining lectures are as follows:
December 23--Effect of the Greek Genius on Modern Poetry.
December 26--On Prose; History, Oratory, Rhetoric.
December 28--On Plastic Art; Architecture, Sculpture.
December 30--On Subjective Art; Painting, Music, Decoration.
January 2--On Science; Grammar, Logic, Mathematics.
January 4--On Politics and Sociology.
January 6--On Philosophy; Metaphysics, Ethics.
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