Word: stereopticon
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...Frederick Gardiner, Jr., '80, will give a lecture, illustrated with the stereopticon, on Monday evening, at 7.30, at the Shepard Memorial Chapel, corner Garden and Mason streets, on the Indians and Country of Arizona and New Mexico. Mr. Gardiner spent two months in the Southwest among the wild tribes. studying the Indian question and taking photographs. This lecture was given most successfully at the Old South Meeting House in Boston on Friday...
...lecture met with the same approval. The lecture deserved it, for, although on account of his audience, Mr. Bowen put his remarks in the shape of an informal talk, yet what he said was sufficient to show that he had the material for an interesting running commentary upon the stereopticon illustrations which form the main feature of the lecture...
...These stereopticon views with which Mr. Bowen illustrated his own views upon alma mater, give a capital representation of life at Harvard. They comprise birds-eye views of the college and its surroundings, pictures of the buildings and of their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly...
...themselves,-the gentleman has kindly consented to give a private rehearsal of his lecture this evening before the members of his class, to whom he has accordingly sent invitations. The lecture, we learn, will be called "Harvard University, or, What I saw at College," and will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Among the views will be the interior of the library, interior of Memorial at lunch time, an instantaneous picture of the men running to chapel just as the last notes of the bell are ringing out, several portraits of participants in the torch light procession, and many other pictures...
...Huntington delivered another of his enjoyable lectures before a good audience last evening. The subject chosen was Venice, and the views shown by the stereopticon were very beautiful. The first views were photographs of the Lower Piazza, and the Ducal Palace. Then the lecturer presented views of St. marks, both from the interior and exterior. The photographs of the altar rail and the south end of the Vestibule were especially noticeable. The Campanile was the next object described, the lecturer dwelling at length upon the beautiful views which lay in sight from its upper windows...