The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-07-26
Some Features of Chautauqua.

A COMPLICATED MAcfiINE-FINE ARRAY OF
NAMES IN TIE COLLEGE FACULTY-SroRIE.S
TOLD IN THE SYLVAN SHADES.
Correspondence of the journal
Chautauqua, \. V. July 16.--rhe Chautau-
qua season is well under way in its second
weeks work. The working features are the
more conspicuous ones in July. The 1. de-
partments aud - classes Of the college of Lib
eral Arts, with their 81 professors from Yale.
Amherst and other universities the Teachers
Retreat, with its ten subdivisions of classes
and work; the college of music; the Society
OF Fine Arts; the School of ElOcutiOn and Ora
tory; the Business College; Department of
Physical Training; Kindergarten-the bare
enumeration of the departments and classes
Is formidable and really conveys no adequate
conception OF the extent, ramitication and ver-
>atiity of the work here to one who has never
visited the place. Nay. it is universal expert
ence that at first one is confused and distressed
by the multiplicity of working interests. and
few rarely ''catch on to the Chautauqua pro-
gram in one season. How then can anyone be
surprised If people at distance do not fully
comprehend il:
If the managers please l think they have in
past years taken too much for granted in the
way OF popular comprehension of the Chautau-
qua idea and acquaintance with its applications
and outwo1kings. Hence. they have not until
lately taken sufficient pains to infinitely, pa
tiently and simply educate the public regard
ing this complicated machine with which its
constructors and operators are so familiar
But lately more attention has been paid to adj
vertising the features of Chautalqua, and
keeping the press informed of its operations
The plan devised by the undersigned five years
ago has at last been set in operation. and the
press of the entire country is weekly furnish
ed bulletins of work here by the
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENTS BUREAU.
This work is in the hands of Independent,
competent and well informed writers; their
work is not revised by the manager of Cha,,-
tau4ua, though the writing is in friendly
spirit. The object is to furnish facts, infor-
nation abOu! this world wide movement
which thousands in every land are so eager to
learn.
THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
is the central department of work now in OPP
Grafton. This is one college of the Chautauuila
University. 1t will be remembered tina. this
university is chartered by act of the legislature
of New York and empowered to confer de-
grees. 10 qualify students for such honors its
work is two fold. viz: /. correspondence be-
tween the faculty and study by students in
their respective homes during nine months of
the year: :. Six weeks of personal instruction
in condensed curriculum under high pressure.
The instructors engaged in this work number
nent in pedagogics as Prof. Herbert b. Adams
and Prof. Richard T. Ely of Johns Hopkins
university, Prof. George S. Burroughs of AM
herst college, Prof. Marcus ID. Buell. of Boston
university. Prof VIM. X. Harper of Yale,
Prof. A. II. Edgren of the University of Ne
braska, and Prof. Noah X. Davis of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
THE HUMAN ELEMENT.
But all is not given up to work and ''culclaw"
here. There is plenty of the dolce far niente,
the mere peasure-seeking; and vast deal of
rehearsing for that greatest of all dramas in
which only two are in the cast and the interest
in which never ceases or abates. At least
confess to more interest in the flrtations and
deeper relations to be seen in the sylvan shades
Of Chautauqua than in the pursuit of knowl-
edge in the academic groves of the College Of
Liberal Arts. "The same old story is toid'' at
all hours in the day here and pity the fellow
who is SO old, cold and -blase as not TO sympa-
thize with the infatuations Of young men when
he sees the bloom and freshness and beauty
that invisbly but irresistiby draw them at
Chautauqua. COLEMAN +. BISHOP.