The second course will be eight lectures by Sir Edwin Pears, late president of the European Bar in Constantinople, author of "The Fall of Constantinople," "The Construction of the Greek Empire." "Forty Years in Constantinople," etc. "On the Byzantine Empire and the Turk":
1. "How Constantinople Became the Capital of the Roman Empire."
2. "Justinian, Road Builder and Law Maker."
3. "East and West in Religious Thought." "The Inconoclasts."
4. "The Coming of the Turk."
5. "Destruction of the Greek Empire. Capture of Constantinople in 1453."
6. "Subsequent Progress and Decadence of the Turkish Empire. Efforts at Reform. Young Turkey. Deposition of Abdul Hamid."
7. "Eastern Christianity and Present Religious Movements in Turkey."
8. "What Constantinople Has Done for the World. Its Future."
These lectures will be on Monday and Thursday evenings, at eight o'clock, beginning Monday, October 16:
The third course will be six lectures by Ralph Adams Cram, Litt.'D., LL.D., professor of architecture in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of "Church Building," "Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain," etc., on Christian architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VII.;
1. "The Dark Ages."
2. "The Carolingian Revival."
3. "The Great Awakening of the Eleventh Century."
4. "Growth of the Gothic Spirit."
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