Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-04
sUCCESsfUL IHSrfTUfIOS.
Tho WORK the Society to Encourage Home
study Is Doing.

study Is Doing.
FOR tho iSrELLIdESCER.
Summer IL passing very quickly now.
Soon we will hear only the echo Of her foot.
steps a. we turn another corner OF the year.
Hali,regretfully We come home from shore
and mountain. With a sigh we take the lazy
hammock down and toss aside the we'll
thumOed novel. Oh, yes, wo know very
well that "ail work and no play makes Jack
dull boy" and that the reverse of the old
adage IL equally true OF both Jack and Jill.
And this has suggested TO me tho thought that
possibly some of your feminine readers
might be Interested at this season in hearing
something OF the Boston Society to Encour-
age Home Study +" and its mode OF working
The day IL past when intellectually in a
woman IL crime it II the fashion now to
be at least intelligent. The fact has been
clearly proved that 1t Is quite possible to cul-
tvato both head and heart without thereby
losing in any degree the symmetry OF perfect
W omanhood. As to the best method of do.
ing IL, aye there's the rub-comparatively few
girls can go To college. Home, with its various
duties, has claims which dare not be set
aside.
The " Society to Encourage Home Study"
believes, ~ its name would indicate, thpt
home duties can be supplemented by home
studies and thus offers ono solution of the
riga prODlem. lnelr 1hltn has Deem lNstlNeu
by such successful work that IL certainly en-
titles them to hearing. To quote briefly
from their report, the purpose of the so
ciety is to induce ladies' To form the habit OF
devoting some part OF each dav to
| study OF u systematic kind" Nearly
two hundred cultivated women give
| their services in instruction by cor
respondence, each one attaching herself to
one department Of stud and usually TO one
| section of department These ladies are ali
| thorough students, and most OF them women
| OF means and leisure. They have certainly
| found very pleasant way TO help others.
| The society WAS started by ten Boston
women thirteen years ago In that time it
| has numbered nearly five thousand students
| Last year there we're five hundred and forty
| seven names on the roll. Its rules are few
| and simple. No one can Join the society un-
| der seventeen years of age. lis course Is
| mostly postgraduate one.
| Three dollars is the annual fec. Each stu
! dent Is assigned TO a correspondent and re-
| quired to report To her each month. Failure
| 10 report for two consecutive months iOrfeits
membership, unless very good reason can be
| shown, ana once dropped no one can rel DIN
| the society Six courses of study are pre-
sented, and these are sub divided into rs
| many sections, To vary the students choice.
History iIas five sections-aucient, media.
val modern, European, American and po.
lticaI economy. Science presents iormida,
BILE array of ologies to the uninitiaied, and il,
too, is sub-divided into various branches,
| any one of which can he taken up separately.
| Very tempting is the "art COURSE" which
begins with Egyptian and ends with modern
French art. Fourth and fifth on the list
| come French and German literature, CORES
| pondence being carried on in three ian-
guages, IL desired. Sixth and last is English
literature, which IL divided into six sections,
the last section being special study o
Shakespeare under the advice of the best
| Shakespearean scholars in this country. A.
to the character OF the work being thus
quietly and faithfully done we have the testi
mony OF Prof Herbert Adams, OF Johns Hop
| klns university, VINO AT the historical con