New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-10
CHAUTAUQUA IN HISTORY.
DIR. HERBERT l. ADAMS DISCUSSES llS
RELATIONS TO MEDlAEVAL
UNIVERSITIES
THE cooKING.scnooL UPSET BY A STORM
MINISTRIES, coNFERENCE-A SOCIETY OF
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR-NEW
ARRIVALS.
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,.,or,o,,,a Iuly "a terrific thunderstorm passed
.. NC chautsnqua last night. proetrot'ns all the
,o,.-,,,, ,ircs 4 great deal of damage was zone
20 nroperty aboat the lake but the Assembly, lr'u
I'll, csraped with nothing worse thah tue H"'"e
., lev, tent, and the blowing down of the ''ohlhE
scbo,l The thermometer. when Ne'tcT"N '''N
,.,,o ,ur,p from ~ 10 80 degrees. has again sub
,ldod hut even heat is supPorah'e IN th' favored
o,oo cool brecnes are constant aud mosquitoes
- i,-o, unL,,wn The only change wrought ly
. r,sc In the mercury is that hom neutral UNITS
q, bright color, IN" outward gdTo Oi stuu'i'S a'O
profc.sor>. and nobody objects when scholars no'h
into the classr rooms with their baseball bats ana ter
,,s rarl icts D. SAID academies uonAt 'he r"s'r'1m
- discourse on hnotty points Of ancient lore
..uor hts and white flannel yachting suits. Dr
ill.,, T. Adams. the lecturer on history, continued
H. discussion Of the growth and development OF
chautououa from the ancient schools Oh flato ana
Aristotle. ,, ..,.o,,
Sc After the schools of Athens he said "the heA'
s,cn IN the history Of tbs development was 'Pc
medieval university. Nhat 40 We medl ~ "
.'nt,.o..l,v, Ezra CornclrS idea was that 1t is
= nl,cc where anybody can learn anything senator
S,nt,rt l. founding a university to begin Win inc
s,n6ergarten and end with manual training. but
think The cducatvc Of this country VIII con
denim those notions. The history Of the umNeiS'N
shows that it a place Of higher learning lof Tue
s,udv Of the liberal arts The word originally meant
o,,ociation of students and professors. snch a.
Chautauqua represents. Nowadays it is easy 10
found universities. states found them by legislative
enactment. Churches establish them f'r se'EAIl"'
purposes. Wealthy endow them WIN inc"
own names foI variety of reasons, ana thlNA t'''
all that is needed is collection OF bulilnles' ""'
the very earliest universities were not founded III
ALL Like TopSy and the Constitution OF England t'cN
crew Student, struck FOR better instruction. lheN
were the products Of times aad new c"hdi'loi's'
They were the adaptation OF old means 10 nc" c'"''
helped first by the increase of municipal freedom
second by the diffusion of knowledge brought doo"'
by contact with the SaTaccns during ana ai"F '.r
Crlsades and third, 10y the Introduction INTO u'e
scholastic centres of new subjects Of study, such "a
rediane and law The first universities, in snort,
were specialized departments Of instruction. some
thing beyond disciplinary schools and IN tha' HcS
the difference between a college and uhlVe'siN'
The first universities were very like ChautauqNd.
They had no dormitores. They had no eiaOoi"'o
continent or apparatus They were not 50 well
of as we are. They had absolutely nothnS except
the professor and the students. Bologna was
pure democracy The students were more powerful
than the professors for the professors had HUE Vi 10
authority excepting that Of their own ItI7h'' Aoo
professors gave lectures in their own houses OF j"
gardens and sometimes hail was hired in the cry
The students organized by nations. They were WIN
out a president but they elected their own rector
once a year If they did not like the professor, they
departed as Chautauquans leave the amphtleaup
when they don't like the performance II they dioh
like the town. they sometimes went oil ana cslaD-
lished q university somewhere else. In mat way
Padua represented a secession from Iologna' oXloN
and Cambridge a secession from Paris, Leipsic seces
sion from Prague. IT seems remarkable that in the
so-called Dark Ages the universities should have been
80 much more republican in their forms than are
the universities here and now. In another point you
resemble the students Of those DAYS. lou are all
wanderers. You are all tramps, and so were they
At oxford they say that when man graduates ne
either travels on the Continent or stays home ara
reads Green's short History of the English People
be such local provincial feeling among the colleges
inat c ' 9 yI di, H Thcv Won't let man 20
away. when be graduates, if he has money. but try
wrong lie should be permitted to 20 elsewhere and
to imhbe new ideas. and am glad there !, no such
Mr. Adams loudly appauded. Professor Henry
{. Badger curator Of maps at the Harvard COLLEGE
da,, conducted by Bishop Vincent at which there we're
ple>rnt fv, BaptIS'- on" fOuEI"-dt Ouall ?. seven
iresbytcrians fourteen MethoGi~t>. two Protestant
ChautauquA idea wa, discussed.
NorK on the union cid>> building. which was 40 serve
the permanent headquarters Tor the EIGHT g. J.. : G.
Cla>ses from l--G to l~13. has been temporarily post
Pre-, VIII meantime be used insieid The union ca>,
building II IS estimated VIII cost $1,000. J.. \. Hail.
Of SyraCu>e. is the architect.
The great interest taken by Chautauquans in The
Christian EndcavOr work ilH> caused the Assembly
managers 70 GccIe on tic ORGANIZATION OF NHduauHud
society Of Christian EndcavOr, 10 be under their con
troll, with headquarters here. II VIII embrace the
EpwOrth League and similar societies.
Among the cottage owners all. ady on the cround-
Mrs. ". f.. Ch"S~. ~ Louisville; Mrs.. sarah y.
EoScngarten. Of Louisville: Mr.. Rachel smith. .;
Cincinnati. Dr. 7. II. Hayes. Il Buffalo Mrs NJ Asch
man. u Ncw-ICrlt, Mr.. George p IIutll. Of Titus
vile the Rev. /. J.. Rad life. of Meadlc. Mr. Ilb-z
Harris ~ Buffalo. Luru~ T.. IiaWlcy. OF jufalO Mr..
Phoebe NJ LOckard, Of bradford, and +. il. Rockwell.
Of Warren, Penn
Recent arrivals a9o T. :. Woodruff. 81 II. Paul. Or.
Julius King, Cleveland James r. Camp eli and Char",
NJ Allen. Brooklyn Professor Il. T. Weidncr. Rock
Island H.. Mrs James TarOvid. Chicago, and l.. =.
Wallace omaha. Dr. W. Il. Harper has gone t.
Chicago
WORK II THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.