Calendar: 1888-1889 Page 687

REPORT 679 For the hist eighteen years there has been no period of anything like the same depression and similar period is not likely to occur again though there is possibility of its continuance for short time longer King's College Popular Lectures -In the summer of 1887 circulars were issued to the London clergy setting forth the success which had attended this movement during the preceding year and inviting future co- op tion This appeal was less generally responded to by the olergy πι the present year and consequently the number of ctures organized by clerical managers has been much mailer than in the preceding winter There were during his winter five such courses the number of lectures in each course varying from three to six fee of £2 2s for each of these lectures was readily paid by the Local Managers In the case of one course on Electricity by Mr Herroun an extra charge of half-a-guinea was made in view of the expenses incident to the use of scientific apparatus These curses seem to have been with one exception very sue- cessful Equal success attended two separate lectures given at the Oxford Club House at Bethnal Green by Professor Laughton and Mr Macmillan Special mention should be made of course of lectures given by Professor Seeley in the Town Hall of Shoreditch which were designed for large audiences of working people The example of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching which had successfully promoted popular lectures by similar means in the same neigh- bourhood was encouraging But that society had the ad van- tage of being aided by the Gilchrist Trustees who in consequence it is believed of the conditions of the Trust have felt obliged to refuse similar help to King's College They were thus enabled to meet the deficit between the expenses of organization and the receipts from tickets In our case there is similar deficit but not similar fund to cover it However fair measure of success attended these lectures The experiment has at least shown that popular