Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-28
A SEASON OF REFORM
Is Now on at Chautauqua-Work of the
Women's Club-Study of the Bible-An
Important Gathering of Grangers-
Pitcher Stagg's Engagement.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

Pitcher Stagg's Engagement.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH,I
CHAUTAuoUA, n. Y, July 27.-The Chautau-
qua ladies are exceedingly ambitious as
well as aesthetic. They have decided to 20
in for reforms, and do it in methodical
way. The enthusiastic meetings of last
week were only a drop in the bucket of
what they propose to accomplish, and this,
too, in the face of the stern fact that "man
proposes and God disposes," although the
proyerb really does not hit them. The
Women's Club have accordingly arranged
their series of reforms in alphabetical order,
SO that none shall escape them, for they
have decided to cover the alpha and omega
of the subject. This is the list up to date,
which, like Luther. they have nailed up
as theses on Chautauqua's doors, and most
boldly will they stand by their proposition:
Art reform, ballot reform, cooking reform,
dress reform, riding reform, fashion reform,
girl reform tservants), health reform. This
list covers nearly half the alphabet and will
take up the greater portion of this summer
in the discussion.
The club this morning took as the subject
for original investigation and instruction,
''The Training of a Citizen" Mrs. Emily
Huntington Miller presided. The Teachers
Retreat closed on Saturday, but the College
of Liberal Arts and the School of Theology
are still in full swing. Some of the teachers
have gone home, though the majority will
stay here through the Assembly in August.
AFavorite's Lecture.
This was the programme for the day: At
2:S0 P. NJ. DR.. C. J. Little, of Syracuse Uni
versity, lectured before a large audience in
the Hall of Philosophy on the monk Ber
nard of Clairvaux" DR.. Little is an old
favorite here, and hence Chautauqua turned
out in great numbers to hear him. At&
o'clock lecture was given in the Hall of
Philosophy on ''How Should l study the
Bible" by Prof. w. r. Harper; at P. NJ, a
lecture on Life in the Homeric Age" by
Prof. Thomas D. Seymour, of Yale; at p. M,
a twilight concert by Rogers Band in the
hotel; at P. NJ, an entertainment by Will
lam H. Sherwood, Miss Jessie Dalrymple and
Rogers Orchestra in the amphitheater.
Miss Dalrymple is Philadelphia elocu-
zionist, and she charmed the audience with
her clover renditions. Her style is character
lied by simplicity and expression. DR.. Harp
er made six points in his farewell lecture, as
follows: First, have clear, definite purpose
in mind as to what you are trying to accom-
piish in study; second, have sharply out
lined plan, providing for the study of great
the great life-the life of Christ: third, that
you will think for yourself, use the mind
that God has given you, using aids only
when necessary and wise; fourth, study
COnneCCeOly, cOnS6CuUlV0ly, dc-
cording to the great principles underlying
the workings of the human mind; fifth be
comprehensive, remember your purpose, do
not lose yourself in a wilderness of debate;
able to say at the end of every one, two,
three or six months that you have made pro-
gress.
Books on the Bible.
There are books on the Bible coming to
you one by one. Do you look to the time
l. Il l.
sense mastered. Then your work is sys-
tematic The students gathered around
Dr. Harper at the close of his talk and bade
him God speed and goodby.
Prof. Seymour's lecture was very interest
ing. His subject was: Life in the Homeric
Age" The speaker gave rapid survey of
life in the Homer1c age in the camp before
Troy and in the Greek home, touching upon
the beliefs of the people with regard to the
Gods and a future life, and giving more de-
ernment and of the customs of private and
life.
In culture the Homeric Greeks were COM
pared with the contemporary Hebrews of
cupations did not differ widely from those
of now. The after existence of the dead was
a neutral state, not yet differentiated into
life of happiness for the good and suffering
for the wicked. No priestly caste existed. A
part of every animal slain for food was given
to the gods as conscientiously as among the
Hebrews Each man had to assert his own
rights No written laws and few definite
laws were known. Princes and peasants
were not dividedly separated. The life
which Homer describes could not have been
the life of the masses of the people. He tells
US little of the lower strata of the commu-
nifty, little of the hard-working life of the
ordinary man. He sings of the feasts of
princes and of the conflicts and adventures
of mighty men of yalor But he certainly
OF the Hellenic life of his times, from which
our own civilization can be traced by an un-
broken line of direct descent
Gathering of Grangers.
Friday will be Grange Day, a day when
farmers Of Chautauqua and adjoining
of New York and Pennsylvania are
given the freedom OF the city. That they
will be here in large numbers, the history
of former Grange days assures. The Mis-
sionary Institute, one of the oldest Of
many departments will begin
on Saturday, and Miss Frances Z. Willard
will be one of the speakers. The examina-
tions in American constitutional history,
that portion given in Prof. Thorpe's lecture
came off to-day at 10 o'clock, and quite a
number of students competed for the prize.
Mrs. Ewing, the head of the cooking school,
ia in receipt of letters from seminaries and
colleges asking about her cheap coffee.
There is hope that college students will get
good to drink in the way of
coffee.
President w. R. Harper, of Chicago Uni
the big Baptist institution backed
by the oil king John d. Rockefeller, left
Chautauqua tonight for Chicago, and will
sail for Europe Thursday on the French line
of steamers.
1t has just leaked out that President
Harper has secured several of Chautauquas
professors and instructors. One of these is
A. A. Stagg, the great baseball player from
Yale College, familiarly known as the "Pray-
ing Pitcher" Stagg has been coming to
Chautauqua during the summer for years
past and is here again this season in charge
of the ball teams He is short and muscular,
with slightly curling dark hair, roguish eyes
and heavy features. His genial manner wins
him friends among all classes, and as for the
juvenile portion of Chautauqua population,
they swear by Captain Stagg as their patron
hero. He abandoned his purpose of study
ing for the ministry, and after finishing his
postgraduate course at Yale he entered Mr..
Moody's training school in Springfield,
Mass.