Show PHILOSOPHER TO GIVE FIRST LYCEUM NUMBER Will Durant Americas America's foremost student and philosopher today will be bethe bethe bethe the first number of the Lyceum course for 1931 Mr Durant first became prominent In his work when teaching at the Columbia University Men and women who studied under him there still tell of the exhilarating Influence of his enthusiasm and his scholarship they had never suspected that philosophy philosophy phy could be so intelligible so absorbIng absorbing absorbing absorb absorb- ing and so fruitfully related to the actual problems of life Ufe It happened th that t among the many lectures which Dr Durant was asked to give outside the University was one on at the great community center Labor Temple maintained by bythe bythe bythe the Pr Presbyterian Church l at Fourteenth Fourteen Fourteen- th Street and Second Avenue New NewYork York This address led to the formation formation form form- atlon of two classes under Dr Durant which met at Labor Temple every week for forty weeks in the year with an approximate at attendance of 1000 per week for eight t years yelUS years These two classes have pow now a combined a attend attendance end end- ance ante of 1600 every week O these courses came cam came Labor Temple School School- School School- an institution tion which h has ha's s won such a place for itself in the educational ute life Continued on Page Four PHILOSOPHER TO GIVE FI FIRST T LYCEUM NUMBER NUMBE R Continued From Page One of th the metropolis that its annul annual dinner dinners din din- ners nera have become the intellectual event of eyer every season the gathering point t of auch such speakers as John Dewey Dewer Felix Adler AdJer Stephen Wise Wlee Harry Emerson Fosdick Jo John 1 Haynes Holmes Hen Hendrik drift Van Loon Loom etc Dr Durants Durant's vogue in New York takes us back to the Middle Ages when people used to walk 1000 miles to hear great teachers of philosophy In 1917 he lie broke all records of the Bureau of Lectures of the Board of Education of New York by giving a series of twenty addresses on ogy at Wadleigh High School which drew capacity audiences of 1300 to each lecture throughout the course He lie has given several complete courses forthe for forthe forthe the Kansas City University Extension his audiences there in 1920 grew from at the first lecture to at the fourth In 1923 he gave forty addresses s in thirty-five thirty days in Kansas City nearly all In the same hall and drewan drew drewan an average attendance of He has attracted overflow audiences in nearly every large large city city and nearly every state of America the average attendance at each lecture last season sea sea- season son wa was was 1500 These audiences have hue been surprised to find that thai as the result re result result re- re sult of long experience and a certain Gallic wit Dr Durant speaks even b better bet better bet bet- t. t ter than he writes H Hundreds of individuals in individuals in in- have pronounced his addresses addresses ad- ad dresses Is Progress Real the the- best ever heard in their communities Date of Dr Durants Durant's lecture and the subject of his lecture will be announced announced an an- in the near future |