Seven lecture courses on a variety of subjects, including American history, ancient history, church architecture, modern painting, economics-particularly the economics of war-are announced by the Lowell Institute for its seventy-eighth season; and additional courses are in preparation.

As is customary, the lectures will be by men prominent in their respective fields, they will be free and public and will be given, as in past years, in Huntington Hall, Rogers Building, 491 Boylston street Boston.

Besides the Huntington Hall lectures, there will be a free evening school for industrial foremen; the so-called collegiate courses, which are now given, at a small fee for each course, under the auspices of the Commission on Extension Courses, whose office is at 19 University Hall, Cambridge, where also application may be made for registration in the Teachers' School of Science; and a course of free lectures in King's Chapel on current topics in theology.

The free public lectures, to be given in Huntington Hall, as so far arranged, are here outlined:

The first course, given on Wednesday evenings, at eight o'clock, will be ten lectures on American history.

1. "Pilgrims and Puritans," by Professor Wendell, October 11.

2. "The Colonies as an Imperial Asset of Great Britain," by Charles M. Andrews, professor in Yale University; October 18.

3. "Patriots and Loyalists," by Samuel Eliot Morison of Boston; October 25.

4. "The Making of the Constitution," by Max Farrand, professor in Yale University, November 1.

5. "High Finance, 1789-1800," by Professor Channing; November 8.

6. "The United States in the Time of Washington and Jefferson," by Professor Channing; November 15.

7. "Andrew Jackson," by John Spencer Bassett, professor in Smith College; November 22.

8. "The South in the Building of the Nation," by Ulrich B. Phillips, professor in the University of Michigan; November 29.

9. "The West," by Frederic L. Paxson, professor in the University of Wisconsin; December 6.

10. "Abraham Lincoln," by Professor Hart; December 13.

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."

5. "The Full Flower of the Middle Ages."

6. "The Decadence and the New Paganism."

On Tuesday and Friday evenings at eight o'clock, beginning Tuesday, December 5.

The fifth course will be eight lectures by Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., professor of the history of art in Princeton University, on "Modern Painting," on Thursday and Saturday evenings at eight o'clock, beginning Thursday, January 4, 1917.

The sixth course will be six lectures by Thomas S. Adams, professor of economics in Yale University, on "The Economics of War," on Tuesday and Friday evenings at eight o'clock, beginning Tuesday, January 9.

The seventh course will be eight lectures by Edwin Francis Gay, professor of economics and dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University, on "The Industrial Revolution," on Tuesday and Friday evenings, at eight o'clock, beginning Tuesday, February 6.

Announcement of additional courses will be made from time to time in the advertising columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, in the Bulletins of the Boston Public Library, and in later editions of the program, copies of which may always be had by sending to the curator, 491 Boylston street, a stamped addressed envelope.

The following instructions in regard to securing tickets for these lectures is given:

Admission to these courses is free, but only by ticket, the number of tickets being limited by the capacity of the hall.

Tickets are distributed to the public under the following rules:

1. Admission tickets to the first lecture of each course will be mailed, one to each applicant, in the order of application, and until the supply is exhausted, to all persons whose letters of application are received at least two days before the beginning of any course by the curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, and are accompanied by stamped, addressed, envelopes.

In such envelopes, when duly stamped and addressed, tickets will be mailed as soon as they are ready for distribution and if the supply is not already exhausted. If, however, as often happens, the desired tickets are not ready for distribution, the envelopes will be kept on file in the order of application, and, as a rule, tickets for any course will be mailed to applicants a few days only before the actual beginning of that course.

A separate envelope must be sent for each ticket desired.

When tickets are in great demand, only one ticket will be mailed to any one applicant or in any one stamped, addressed envelope.

2. Persons desiring to secure tickets for more than one course must send a separate stamped, addressed envelope for each ticket for each course.

3. On and after the day on which a course begins, any tickets left over for that course may be obtained at the office of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 4 P. M.; or by sending to the curator (with a specific request for such left-

over tickets) a stamped addressed envelope; but, inasmuch as it is intended to distribute tickets chiefly by mail, no tickets will be given out at the office of the Lowell Institute for any course before the day on which that course begins.

4. Persons attending the first lecture of any course may, just before entering the hall, exchange their admission tickets to the first lecture for tickets good for reserved seats for the entire course.

5. In order to give all applicants an equal opportunity, all reserved seat tickets are placed beforehand in envelopes some containing one ticket good for one reserved seat, some containing two or more tickets good for adjoining reserved seats. These envelopes are then shuffled and at the first lecture of any course all who desire to do so may exchange their first-lecture admission tickets at tables in the vestibule for envelopes, drawn by lot, containing course tickets good for reserved seats.

6. Two or more persons wishing to sit together may, by surrendering together their first-lecture admission tickets, exchange these before entering the hall for envelopes containing course tickets for adjoining reserved seats.

7. A limited number of applicants with-out tickets of any kind may as heretofore obtain admission to the Hall (and almost always good seats) for any lecture by waiting in line in the vestibule at the foot of the stairs.

8. At all lectures in Huntington Hall the doors are closed when the lecture begins, and no one is afterward allowed to enter.

Ticket-holders are requested to return promptly to the curator or to the office for the benefit of others tickets which they find they cannot use.

The free lectures in King's Chapel on current topics in theology will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Divinity School, the Andover Theological Seminary and the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge. For these lectures no ticket is required. The dates and subjects will be announced later.

President Lowell is trustee of the Lowell Institute, and the curator is W. T. Sedgwick. The Institute was founded by John Lowell, Jr., in 1836, and was opened to the public in 1839