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ANNOUNCEMENT
The American Lectures on the History of Religions are
delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for
Lectures on the History of Religions. This Committee was
organised in 1892, for the purpose of instituting "popular
courses in the History of Religions, somewhat after the style of
the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered by the best
scholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as
Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,
and others."The terms of association under which the Committee exists
are as follows:
1. -- The object of this Association shall be to provide courses
of lectures on the history of religions, to be delivered in various
cities.
2. -- The Association shall be composed of delegates from the
institutions agreeing to co-operate, with such additional
members as may be chosen by these delegates.
3. -- These delegates -- one from each institution, with the
additional members selected -- shall constitute themselves a
Council under the name of the "American Committee for
Lectures on the History of Religions."
4. -- The Council shall elect out of its number a Chairman, a
Secretary, and a Treasurer.
5. -- All matters of local detail shall be left to the co-operating
institution under whose auspices the lectures are to be delivered.
6. -- A course of lectures on some religion, or phase of
religion, from an historical point of view, or on a subject ger-
mane to the study of religions, shall be delivered annually, or
at such intervals as may be found practicable, in the different
cities represented by this Association.
7. -- The Council (a) shall be charged with the selection of
the lecturers, (b) shall have charge of the funds, (c) shall assign

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Publication Information: Book Title: Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. Contributors: Franz Cumont - author. Publisher: Dover Publications. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1960. Page Number: vii.
    
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