Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-18
A PERPETUAL CHORUS.
Sweet Harmony Fills the Temples and
Groves of Chautauqua Lectures on
Rossini, Education and History-Mrs.
Ewing Gives a Talk on Eggs.
lsrEC1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l

Rossini, Education and History-Mrs.
Ewing Gives Talk on Eggs.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
CHAUTAUoUA, July I7.-There is music
everywhere at Chautauqua The birds carol
it early in the morning; later the chimes
ring out their notes on the air; next the
swelling strains from the grand organ take
up the refrain at the chapel exercises, ana
when the sun mounts to his meridian splen-
dor, the whole grove seems to break forth
into symphony of song sort of "crea-
ton" chorus, having verisimilitude to
Hayden's great masterpiece. During the
day musical recitals, choir rehearsals, solo
singing fill the air with melody, and when
twilight comes over the camp the beautiful
vesper service may be heard floating on the
breeze and banishing the thoughts of day.
The Chautauqua programme opened to-
day with a delightful lecture recital by Mr..
Flagler in the amphitheater. His subject
was 1.-The Great Composer Rossini,'' whom
he said excelled in five things, namely,
fecundity, novelty, song, expression and
le1rning. Mr.. Flagler played a number OF
Rossini's pieces on the big organ in most ex-
quisite style, among others, Semiramide,
Tancredi and the overture to William Tell.
At 2:3O DR.. W. T. Harris, United States Com
missioner of Education, entertained large
Philosophy of Education" and at O'Clock,
in the same place. Prof. John Bach McMas-
ter, of Philadelphia, lectured on ''The Strug-
gle for Free Trade and Sailors Rights" The
c. L. $. G. Round Table came off Mt p. NJ,
and in the evening Miss May Donnelly, OF
Chicago, now Mrs. Prof. Kelso, gave de-
lightful reading. The Apollo Quartette, of
Boston, also entertained the big audience by
number of choice selections.
Lecture on Eggs.
Mrs Ewing's lecture to-day was on eggs
and Omelets." These lectures have be-
come so interesting that the male portion of
the Assembly are turning out with spoons
and napkins to hear them. The speaker to.
day told how to make "picnic eggs" to be
eaten with the proverbial picnic lemonade
and picnic pies. The eggs are first hard
boiled, then cut lengthwise, and the yolk
taken out and seasoned. 1t is then put
back, the egg glued together by albumen
from raw egg, and the whole rolled in
minced chicken. "When young man asks
who laid such eggs" said Mrs. Ewing to the
young ladies, "you must give polite answer
and say they are cooking school goods
The business educators convention con-
tfnued their sessions to-day. These
were the papers read: "Penmanship
in Advanced Department of a Business Col
Correspondence and How to Interest the
Glass in Penmanship,'' T. J. Risinger, U tica,
n. Y; English in the Business Practice De-
partment," W. c. Ramsdell, Wilmington,
States Commissioner of Education. 1.-THE
Philosophy of Education Chautauqua
course: practical Measurements" lesson
by C. NJ. Megarger, Ottawa, Canada, book
keeping, financial statements and closing
accounts
Commissioner Harris lecture was listened
to with great interest He said in substance
that education is made possible by the fact
that man can develop himself in three direc-
tions by means of ideas. Religion says that
man is in the image of God, and this gives
him susceptibility to education. The plant
can be cultivated and the animal can be
trained, but man alone can be educated.
Three Kinds of Piety Involved.
There are three kinds of piety involved In
this education into the Divine image, name
ly, the piety of the heart, the piety of the in
tellect and the piety of the will. We must be
able to know the Divine as well as to love it.
We must be able to realize 1t, too. Education
covers the whole of human life. We see there
is very little progress beyond first instincts
in the animal All institutions educate, the
family gives the child his bundle of personal
habits, and the college his vocabulary of
language. Society teaches the individual
how to specialize his work and cooperate
with his fellows in producing industry.
The State educates constantly by its pres
ence in the mind of the individual as sort
of higher self. To belong to a nation like
Great Britain, whose flag waves under every
sun, or to the Roman, which protected all of
its citizens, or to our own Nation, with its
great size and population, is perpetual
consciousness of strength, which adds
silently to the character throughout life.
The church educates by defining the Divine
ideal and teaching that habit of mind which
refers all actions to an ultimate standard of
right. The school re-enforces these insti-
tutions, but it especially furnishes sort of
transition from the education OF the family
to that of civil society. Hence arise the
different grades of schools, from the kinder
nurture, up to the university, which trains
the individual for his special voca tion in
civil society. Elementary education deals
with data, rather than their relations. 1t
deals, too, with instruments of knowledge,
like letters and figures. rather than with the
substance of knowledge, but secondary in
struction Chat of the high and preparatory
schools) deals more with relations and
forces than with things, but the college edu-
cation tries TO teach the unity of human
knowledge.
Defects in College Education.
The college education, however, is de,
fective in that the student has as yet only a
hearsay knowledge of the branches which it
attempts to unite into a system. Hence, the
university instruction. which adopts the
method of investigation and causes the
student to do original work in the labora-
tory and seminary, is needed to complete
the list of schools. The speaker deprecated
the present tendency to disparage college
work He held that it would not do to base
specialization directly upon secondary edu-
cation.
Prof. McMaster's lecture to-day was in
tensely interesting. He began with the ac-
count of the origin of the impressment of
American seamen and the exercise of the
right of search by Great Britain. He then
gave list of the most notorious cases from
1904 down. He next showed how, when the
United States attempted to retaliate for the
Chesapeake and Leopard affair, she found
it impossible to enforce the total non-inter-
course act for three reasons: First, because
the revenue derived from the English i'm
ports was over S5,OO0,OO0; second, because
the exports to England were over $40, 900 900,
and third, because all the cotton cloth used
in the North was made in England, and non
intercourse meant no shirts.
Prot. Francis Thorpe, of the University Of
Pennsylvania. has just arrived here and will
follow Prof. McMaster. The latter has been
discussing the institutional side of Ameri-
can history. Prof. Thorpe will take up the
constitutional side. DR.. Anderson, head of
the department of physical culture, gave o
big reception to his students tonight. Mrs.
Emma Ewing also gave an ideal dinner to
her class The menu was elaborate and the
cooking could not have been improved on.