St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-27

spirit by listening under these lofty trees to
discussions, conducted by able educators
upon the philosophy of education and the
best methods of instruction.
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES.
\ Here also Is a school of languages wherein
for six weeks, instruction after the most ap-
proved methods, is given in German,
French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and
English literature. There are now about
three hundred students in this department
alone. Besides these literary and scholastic
attractions there are classes in music, clay
modelling, art, embroidery, elocution and
cooking. So that each one can find some
thing that suits him to amuse or instruct, or,
II one wishes, perfect quiet and solitude he
can wander off into the woods along the
bank and find quiet nook where he may
sit and read or muse, undisturbed by the
hustle OF the crowd; or, he can take one OF
the many fine steamers, and after delight
full ride, disembark at some of
the more quiet but not less lovely
points of interest along the lake
and return at any hour that suits his
mood.
OTHER ASSEMBLIES.
From the seed grown here at Cbautauoua
and scattered to the four winds over the land,
have sprung up annual assem- lies at numer-
Gus other places, all with view to further
the good work in new locality an for the pur-
pose OF training up fresh and vigorous work
ers in the same good cause. One meets at
Pennington, Mass; another far away in
Monterey, CAL; one at Lakeside, o. one at
Lake Bluff, H.; two in the south, Monteagle,
Tenn. land Lake Park, Md; one at Petoskey,
Mich; one at Key East, N. j.: one at Otta-
way, Kan; and two in the northwest, at
Menopa lake, Wis, and Mahtomedi, MINI.
Little did DR.. Vincent, who has done such
a work here, hope to kindle so many fires, but
the earnestsenthusiasm of a few noble men
and women is more far reaching than we are
wont to imagine.
THE PROGRAMME
Of this year is of unusual interest. In the
Teachers Retreat DR.. Dickinson, of Boston,
has charge of the department of pedagogy,
and Prof. J. S. Edwards is director of the
school of experimental science, and both,
with their able assistants, are doing excellent
work. The kindergarten department is in
charge of pupil of Mrs. Krans-Boelte.
Among the special lectures is a course of
most charming talks on English literature
by Prof Little, of Dickinson college, which
daily attracts large audiences. The last one
given, "Chaucer and Shakespeare Compared, y
was full Of his love for his subject, and a
clear insight and nice appreciation of the
character of the men as we'll as of the genius
of the authors.
Miss Susan Hays Ward gives four lectures
upon "Home Decoration;' Mr.. George
Makepeace Towle lectures upon Beaconsfeld,
Gladstone, John Bright and Victoria The
''Ideal Tours,'' which are becoming so great
Il feature in modern education, are conducted
by fine speakers and brilliantly illustrated by
the stereopticon.
| might go on through the extended list of
noted teachers and lecturers, giving you a
bewildering array of talent and an endless
variety of subjects, till you would cry ''Hold
Enoughl' and strenuously affirm that no one
head could ever "hold enough'' to absorb
such a "feast of reason'' as all that would in
dictate. But please remember that this exteL-
siye and varied course is like the courses of
study in the modern university-purely elect
i've; that one is not obliged to go through the
whole bill of fare any more than at fashion
able hotel, but is simply required to exercise
a wise discretion in the choice of intellectual
and spiritual nourishment and take only
what he can digest and asslmilate
V. G. c.