Annals of Cleveland

Lectures and Speeches

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1150

Cleveland Morning Leader, 15 January 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1150 - L. Jan. 15; ed:4/3 - Chester's appearance in Cleveland for the
second time has stood the test to which lecturers are subjected. No man
could have written so pure and compact a style as was seen in "The Gods,"
without having his prose style largely characterized by precision. (6)

Index terms:

Chester (lccturer)

1152

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 January 1864 (5 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.5 ~ View at ChronAm

1152 - L. Jan. 21:4/5 - Professor Agassiz, the distinguished savant, lec-
tured last night on the effects of a large accumulation of snow upon
the valley sides down which glaciers make their way. Tonight the object
will be to show that the climate of the earth, in past ages, has oscil-
lated from hot to cold. (5)

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Agasiz, Louis

1153

Cleveland Morning Leader, 22 January 1864 (9 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

1153 - L. Jan. 22:4/4 - Professor Agassiz told in his lecture of immense
glaciers having covered the larger portion of the northern hemisphere.
He explained how glaciers were made and gave a complete history of the
largest ones. The audience was delighted to hear him put himself with
Professor Guiet, a foreigner too, on the platform of American citizen-
ship. - - (9)

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Agasiz, Louis; Guiot, Prof.

1157

Cleveland Morning Leader, 10 February 1864 (ed; 10 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1157 - L. Feb. 10; ed:4/3 - The lecture of John B. Gough was attended
by a large audience. There is no such thing possible as reporting
Gough's lecture. "Words convey nothing of the infinite play of fancy
and oratoric passion with which for two brief hours, he held spellbound
the varied souls before him." (10)

Index terms:

Gough, John B.

1158

Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 February 1864 (4 inches) ~ See original
p.3, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1158 - L. Feb. 19:3/2 - Professor Richard's lecture on "Tom Hood," last
night, was slimly attended due to the extremely cold weather. He has
penetrated far into the inner life of the humorist, and is in strong
sympathy with Hood's writings. - - (4)

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Richard, Prof.

1160

Cleveland Morning Leader, 31 March 1864 (3 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

1160 - L. Mar. 31:4/4 - Dr. Chapin's lecture last night on "Europe and
America," displayed powers of close and accurate observation, powerful
and logical inference coupled with an eloquence and power of delivery
rarely united in the same individual. (3)

Index terms:

Chapin, Dr., (lecturer"

1161

Cleveland Morning Leader, 11 November 1864 (adv; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1161 - L. Nov. 11; adv:2/3 - The Lecture Season for 1864 - 65 will be as
follows: - -
James E. Murdock, Nov. 17, Reading and Recitations; Dr. J. C. Holland,
Dec. 1, "Cost and Compensation"; Rev. John S. C. Abbott, Dec. 8, "Our
War and General Grant"; Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Dec. 22, "Good Living";
Rev. James Eells, D.D., Jan. 12, "The Half Moon and the May Flowers";
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jan. 18, a new lecture; Edmund Kirk, Jan. - "Jeff
Davis at Home"; the Hon. Daniel L. Dickinson, Feb. - "Man in his
relation to Society and Government"; John B. Gough, Mar. 14, subject
not yet announced; Rev. J. C. Fletcher, "Two Thousand Miles up the
Amazon."
Single tickets for the course will cost $2.00;
Tickets admitting lady and gentleman, $3.00;
Tickets admitting two ladies and one gentleman, $4.00;
Tickets to single lecture will cost 30 cents; reserved seats 25 cents
extra. - - (6)

Index terms:

Abbott, Rev. John S. C.; Dickinson, Daniel L.; Eells, Rev. James, D. D.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Fletcher, Rev. J. C.; Gough, John B.; Holland, Dr. J. G.; Kirk, Edmund; Ludlow, Fitz Hugh; Murdock, James E. (elocutionist)

1162

Cleveland Morning Leader, 29 November 1864 (ed; 17 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1162 - L Nov. 29; ed:2/1 - "It is flattering to our National vanity
and consoling in the midst of our many afflictions, to know that "Arts
of Peace' flourish as well as the arts of war. Such a thing as literary
lectures is no doubt unknown in the South, but in the North, industrial
and literary pursuits go on the same as ever. Of the horrors of war,
we scarcely know anything.
"We see no reason why lyseums and lectures cannot be introduced into
every town and village in the State. Another source of literary recrea-
tion is the newspaper. It is a shame for intelligent people to plead
poverty as excuse for not obtaining daily or weekly papers. A little
energy, a little public spirit, and the Arts of peace may flourish in your
midst, and minds and hearts be relieved of the terrible pressure which
brooding over this unhappy war is calculated to produce." (17)

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North; South

1163

Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 December 1864 (6 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1163 - L. Dec. 2:4/3 - Brainard's hall was filled last night to hear Dr.
J. G. Holland's lecture on "Cost and Compensation." He did not presume to
Present any new and searching views, but tried to enforce old truths and . . .
self evident doctrines. Anong the qualities we must exchange for the se-
curing of the highest good, be enumerated time, sensual pleasure, vitality,
ease and will, with all the pride of life. -
Compensation is bound up in sacrifice and every act rewards itself, if
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not in circumstance, in the soul.
The speaker applied this doctrine to men individually and socially. (6)

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Brainard's hall (Cont'd); Holland, Dr. J. G.

1165

Cleveland Morning Leader, 24 December 1864 (7 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1165 - L. Dec. 24: 1/3 - Those who attended the lecture last night of
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, were keenly disappointed. His subject, "Good Living,"
is one which should be treated with a "biending of gravity and humor."
The lecture was a mass of incoherencies, put together without any con-
structive idea or purpose to give them unity... it was altogether unworthy
of the reputation and spirit of the man, and vastly unworthy of the sub-
ject. Ludlow, knowing he had made a failure, pleaded with the editor
to make no mention of it in the LEADER. He said he had been critically
ill only a week before and had made no preparation. "This is no excuse
however, because a man has no right to lecture on 'Good Living' when
he has nothing to offer but a mass of indigestibles." (7)

Index terms:

Cleveland LEADER; Ludlow, Fitz Hugh