The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-14
AT CHAUTAUOtA.
A Good Attendance at the SecretarfaI
Institute-Notes.

A Good Attendance at the Secretarial
Institute-Notes.
The secretarisl institute being held st Chau-
tauqua, on vashon land. is reported by cor
respondent OF the Posi- 1NTELLIGENcER on the
grounds, 10 be grand success. Secretaries are
present from many places, extending from VAN
couver b. c., TO Aston a, Oregon.
Every hing so far has been carried out accord
ing to programme, except that Mr.. bateman
aud Mr. Driver have exchanged places to en-.
able the former TO preach in Tacoma.
The o-anizer, Henry Z. Brown of Oberlin,
O., ons OF the travelling Secretaries of the Ma
tional Society, understands business, and
goes a; once about it IN a manner to bring sue
cess TO the effort. Ne spends one-half of his
,ime III travelling throughout the Union organ
izing institutes, srranging permanent classes
ana r0usinS young mea 20 their privileges.
TIE other hall h. spends az his home studying
the hes, methods of work, fitting himself for the
most thorough work, and studying the various
forms of machinery, for the purpose of bringing
to . practical iesta plan OF educating q cem-
pany of Christian mechanics for LIES work,
giving one-hslf of each day 70 manual labor and
the other to the closest Christian study. His
plsn is to establish somewhere in the West q
Christian manual training school, which young
men may enter without means. laboring
at their trade one-haf the day at mill
esiab ish upon business principles rece vi ng
ouc.haf the men in foreuooa and one-haif in
in mental culture by the most approved
metho Is. This question of manual training
has been much agitated through the country
aud may SAFELY be said TO be the coming Ies-
ton of e1u alton. Mr. Brown holds that
minds are too often dwaried. while strong men
spend ten hours psr day in manual labor. The
eight-hour system would give incceased advan-
tsges but the tendency is 10 spend TIE remain
ing hours ia listlessness or dissipation. Sir
Walter Scott once said he believed eight hours a
day should be given TO manual toll q I'd car for
the body eight hours in study and re.reshment
of the m;ud, ana the remainder 70 sleep. The
present college system Grams the young mind
10 the neglect of systematic physical develop
meut sports too oftsn sbsorh the atteution
which might be given 10 useful trades, a 4 the
collage graduate fails TO link theory with prac-
tice The manual training system which Gre
a,ed Holyose seminary for girls, may teach our
boys TO farm 10 work IN the mill, TO handle the
lathe. and 10 become familisr with machinery
Mr.. Brown proposes to begin with a single class
the mechslics-and provide Q sysiem-educa-
ton 4 r a trade, while mind and soul are also
trained in the most useful truths. aad the
Young men prepared TO 60 into active life well
fitted for its duties and TO become leaders in
Christian work.
Some weeks since Rev. D. J. Pierce offered
ten acres o! TIE Ellis addition for the establish
ment OF 9 mammal training school, proposing q
mill for the same purpose On the water front
block. These ideas are parallel, and Il Is quite
possible thss the young men already endowed