531. The syllabus should give the list of lectures, conditions of admission, the hour and place of their delivery, and contain the reading lists. These last, as indicated already, should be brief; a long list of references defeats its own object, because readers are frightened by it. Half a dozen carefully-selected titles are usually enough. Syllabuses should be distributed free to readers in the library; and little other advertisement is necessary. A small poster giving the programme, of such size that tradesmen will place it in their shops, clergy and ministers in church porches, and may be displayed in other places, has its uses; and sometimes an advertisement in the local papers has a good effect. For special lectures, for which an attendance larger than the lecture-room will hold is expected, tickets of admission may be used, which can be distributed free. The back of these tickets can be used for reading lists.
LECTURER’S MEMORANDUM.
Name (as you desire it to be printed)................................................................
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Title of lecture......................................................................................................
Library...................................................................................................................
Date..........................................
Hour.........................................
* I shall use
Lantern slides.
Blackboard.
* I wish to see the Catalogue of Lantern Slides.