New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-25
BUSY DAY AT CHAUTAUQUA
THE DAY ALMOST TOO SHORT FOR THE
ASSEMBLY'S WORK.
ORGANIZING woMAN's cLUB-PRoFEssoH
BoYEsEN's PoPULARITY-THE NEW UNI
vERSITY scHEME--sINGING on THE
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Chautauqua, n. Y. July 24-Ths has been full
day at the Assembly. The special exercises began
at this a. m and the twelve succeeding hours have
been too short for the duties assigned 10 them. The
organization of a Woman's Club. at which Bishop
Vincent presided and Mrs Emily Huntington Miller OF
ST. Paul, Mimi, read a paper came first In order'
Since then there have been four lectures round table,
meeting of Kings Daughters and concert anu
supper TO the Yale Cleo Club winds up the busy day
The Woman's Club will be under Mrs. Millers
general direction. 1t will meet every morning. and
papers the problems Of household life will be pre-
sented and discussed. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing dealt
some hard blows at prevailing craze in her talk ON
Decorating and GarniShing'
Professor Boyesen IS proving great success His
lectures are admirably adapted to popular
audience, being full of personal illusions and
racy anecdotes. The subject to-day was Tho
German NOvel.' The German novelists,' he said,
in their treatment of the serious problems Of life,
far excel their French brethren in profundity as
they fall behind them in brilliancy and vvacity,
Their leader since Goethe's death has been Gustav
Freytag, whose novel. Debit and Credit explains
his belief in the dignity Of labor and his impatiencc
of the wornout theories Of ancient feudalsm. Auer-
bach, in On the Heights" shows himself worthy
Of great praise. Like George Eliot, Freytag was
primarily philosopher, and, secondly, novelist,
The ethical purpose in all his writings IS tolerance;
yet I'm his life he always forgot that the essence of
tolerance is the tolcraton OF intolerance Spelhagen,
Professor Boyesen described superior to Freytag
in dramatic ability. George Ebers he holds
in lower estimation than do many others
who admire hts work, and Fritz Reuter- he
thinks came near being one Of the great
writer's OF the world.
The definite adoption of the university extension
system by the Chautauqua authorities, which has
already been spoken of in The Tribune, has been
publicly announced from the platform of the amphi-
theatre, by Professor II. B.. Adams DR.. Adams and
George E. Vincent have been appointed a committee
to prepare plan for securing the cooperation Of
college professors in different parts of the country,
and meeting of those interested is called for to-
morrow night. Professor W. D. McClintOck enjoys
the distinction Of being the first to perform actual
work under the plan. His lecture "The
Poetry Of Milton" this afternoon based on a
printed syllabus which afterwarh distributed
among the audience and which is intended in the
extension course 10 take the place Of the disjonted
notes Of students. An important feature of the
system Will be the examinations to be conducted
Immediately after each lecture, in which these men,
oranda will serve as help.
Another new departure was discussed at the Round
Table this afternoon. This IS the laying out of a
further course of reading for the 10000 graduates
of the c. l.. 5. C..
The title of the lecture by the Rev. A. E. Winship
was The Boyhood Of the German Genius.'
Members Of the two fraternities of Psi Epsilon and
Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale marched into the amphl-
theatre at o'clock this evening, headed by banner
bearers and singing their rOusng chOrusCs. llelke
model of the historic fence had been erected on the
platform and after a witty speech by DR.. ". A Dun
can the Yale took up picturesque positions along
the top OF the fence and the Glee Club proceeded 10
wake the echoes of the glen After they had sung
themselves tired they taken TO the hotel where
about forty people cat down to supper In their
honor George f. Vincent presided, and toasts were
responded to by W. A. Mcdowell, '5s W. r. Waters,
| ~; Dr. ". r. Harper; j. G.. Sherman. 49, \ a.
Stage, SO II. j. sage, 80, and W. d. simmons, 80
| frstn of Assembly
to-day, reflects credit Arden Flood, its acting
editor - .r
T0day's arrivals include J. w. Walters, of Albany,
| Ga: c. c. Biting, Philadelphia; j. W. waits, OH
city, Penn. s b: Newton, Buffalo NJ NJ Armstrong nes
sherman Titusville, Penn, and G. P. German, OF
| Buffalo.