New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-15
DOINGS AT CHAUTAUQUA.
CLOSING THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDU-
CATION WITH AN EXHIBITION.
THE ILLUMINATED FLEET-IECTUREs BY PRO
FEssoR BEMs AND GEORGE MAKE
PEACE TnWrE
!BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TnIBUSE1

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE1
Chautsuqua, Aug. 14-1he rain poured down In tor
rnts to-day, and Chautauqua had touch o. cold and
cherries weather. The school OF Physical Education
closed its sessions this afternoon with big gymnastc
exhibition in the Amphtheatre. Nearly 900 students
have been taking the work. the majority of them
women that the girls carried of the larger part of
the diplomas TO-DAY. The cxhbitiop was exceedingly
reditahe and marks an era in the physical education
Of youns woman.
The principal lectures delivered to-day were those Of
George Makepeaoe Towle. Of Boston, on "Irelands
str gges and Professor Edward Bemis OF Vanderbilt
university on The Ethical side Of the Social Ques
tions The Assembly in the height Of its glory,
and people from all the country pour In every day
nv hundreds. Mrs. Ewing's cooking school continues
70 attract great deal Of attention and not few fine
rocks are being turned out every week The CEsutau-
uua young ladies are becoming quite proficient in
paddng bread and batter we'll their canoes and
many q them bake cake that is highly
dicestible and not all dough Miss Annie Park, the
cornet player from Boston, closed her engagement To-
day She has been here for the last fortnight and her
perfect command of the cornet and the beautiful music
she can bring ont of it, for her the highest praises
" H. Sherwood. the pianist, has been giving series
NJ delightful rectas which have attracted TO Chautau
pta large number OF musicians
Last night was witnessed a scene on Chautauqua
lake that would have done credit 10 Venice. Every
steamboat yacht sailing vessel and rowbOat was dec
oraieA with japanese lanterns and lamps of red white
and blue 1t che night at Chatauqua IN which
,be illuminated feet sallies forth dress parade
The silyery moonlight the red and green lights, the
stvroekets and the thousand and lanterns made
scene At once picturesque and beautiful
The lecture of George Makepeace Towle this morn
tnr on Sc Irelands struggles" attracted large audi
.nce said the speaker "The Irish question arises
fon one great central fact-that people Celtic in
race homogeneous in habits and singularly tenacious
% ,ts national type and national traits, has remained
for more than seven centuries under the physical sub
lection and dominion of another completely differ
tng from it In character, genius and tradition. Shall
we refuse the sympathy which we so freely lavish on
Polanders BulgaPians and distant peoples TO that
heroic imaginative, warm hearted race, which for
seven long centuries has preserved its National spirit
race than which there is richer in the records of
Its valor les virtues and it's suffering Let ardently
cherish the hope that Ireland soon take her place
among the free and governing Nations of the earth
the last vesge of the long reign Of andlordSm Obter
sted the people possessing and cultvating their
fair domain the laws made BY the freely chosen repre-
septatves of the restored nationality manufactures
and commerce once more revived. and the Irish people
advancing down the generations free, peaceful and
prosperous
DR. Bemlss lecture on The Ethical Side Of Social
Questions was in substance follows: Society can
largely control its own evolution making future social
conditions far superior the present The process is
slow but sure. As soon as we find any way OF i'm
royinc present conditions il becomes bOunden duty
70 h. reforners We must take the standpoint Of s0ci-
stv. Yet how many intelligent and wellto-do people