The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-03
RENOWNED SCHOOLS
Chautauqua College and its
Group of Special Schools.
THE PROGRAMME AT PLYMOUTH
Joseph Cook, DR.. PArkhurst and Joseph JEFF
ferson-An innovation at CornelI-The
Harvard Summer school, Etc.

The American mind abhors idleness, as
period of rest and recreation has become a
season of supplemental endeavor in the line
or learning. A decade since there were a
few spasmodic efforts at the establishment
of summer schools of science, history and
philosophy. Now these are fixtures, and
the American scholar has become part Of a
vast paripatetic system of summer educa-
ton.
No part Of the country is without its
school, In the groves OF California, under
the bright blue skies of Lake Minnetonks,
in Missouri, in Virginia, at Chautauqus, at
plymouth, at Bay View, at Cornell, at
Harvard, at Lakeside, at Port Richmond,
S. l. aye, wherever the scholar sbounds
there will you find the summer school,
Cnautauqua easily takes the lead. This
year it opens at delightful Lake Chautau-
qua July &, and continues until August IL.
Again DR.. William r. Harper, president Of
The University at Chicago will have
charge of all the educational work. But
Chautauqua College has grown and about
1T this year will cluster number of special
schools, all in charge Of the most efficient
masters in the country. Chautauqua Col
lege will devote itself to English, French
and German Languages and literature pre-
paratory and college Latin and Greek,
mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology,
mineralogy, botany, history, political econ
omy, social science and physiology. From
July to u Colonel Francis Parker, of the
Cook County Normal school, aided by nine
or ten specialists, will conduct a school Of
pedagogy. From July to August II Pro
lessor Harper, aided by number of dis
tinguished theologians, will have charge of
q school of sacred literature. From July
10 to August 10 DR.. H. r. Palmer, OF New
York. conducts school of music. DIR. W.
g. Anderson, of Brooklyn, will be at the
head of the school for physical education,
while miscellaneous classes covering a
great range of subjects will be In charge
Of men of distinction in respective lines.
But among the advanced thinkers of the
day the deepest interest centres about Ply
mouth. Mass, where the second annual
session of the School of Applied Ethics
will begin July d, continuing six weeks
Prof. Q. H. Toy. OF Harvard, will be dean
and director of the department of history
of religions. Prof. H. Q. Adams of the
university of Michigan, will direct the de-
partment of ethics. Here is a list OF sub
jeets in the Religious" department which
will attract the schools o. all creeds The
Prophets, by Prof. Moore of Andover;
Persian Influence on Judaism by DIR.
jackson of Columbia; 1.-THE Ritual avn
by Prof. Jostnow of the university of
Pennsylvania s'The Wisdom Books" by
Prof. Toy of Harvard; 1.-The Talmud," by
DIR. Hirsch of Chicago.
In the department of Economics there
will be the following courses Changes
in the Theory of Political Economy Since
Mills" by Prof. H. G. Adams of the Uni
versity Of Michigan; "Theory of Social
Progress by Prof. f. H. Geddings of
Bryn Mawr; "Functions of Philanthropy
in Social Progress by Faith Huntington
Of New York, and Miss Adams of Chicago;
Functions of Law in Social Progress
by Prof Taussig of Harvard Statistical
Presentation of Industrial and Social Cues
tions, ~ by Commissioner of Statistics Car
roll d. Wright; Critical Study of the
Labor Problem and tue Monopoly Prob
LEM" by Prof. r. G. Adams.
In the department OF ethics the speakers
will be Professor Wallace OF Oxford, Dr.
Felix Adler, Prof John w. Burgess of
Columbia; w. l.. Sheldon of St. Louis,
William Nj. Safer of Philadelphia and
General A. b. Nettlaton of Washington.
No summer school of philosophy has ever
attempted TO cover so wide O range of top
les or has ever succeeded in bringing to-
gether so great faculty.
On July u the great summer school of
osophy will begin at Prohibition park,
Staten island. The gathering will be
opened with a lecture by Joseph Cook on
Fast and Loose Theories OF Evolution
and closed by President @. d. Wantield,
who will present the topic, 1.-THE Philos-
opy of Education" Among other speakers
will be Professor Hyslop of Columbia. w.
NJ. F. Round, the Hon. Walter b. Hill of
Georgia, Professor C. Fl. Sheath OF Yale.
Drocfdapf w T. Rr0Wn of tho Afoh,r,,
Poly technic institute, DR.. q. II. W. Scott
of Andover, and DR.. George Alexander of
New York
Then at the head of Lake Michigan. in
one Of the prettiest of western towns, Bay
View, there will open on July ~ perhaps
the largest summer school in the country.
barring Chautauqua. Last year there were
%, COO in attendance. This year many more
are looked for. This school viii be in
charge of Professor Richard T. Ely. At
Martha's Vineyard the summer school is
for teachers only, but it claims the distinc-
ton of being "the oldest, the largest and
the broadcast summer school for tenchers III
the United Stutes.n Glen Falls, II. Y.
has a similar school which begins July 10.
Harvgrd's summer course opened July |.
and that of Cornell new departure there.
at about the same time.
The American Institute of instruction.
more Of convention than a summer
school, has brief session at Narragansett
Pier. beginning July 5.
On July Is, and continuing to July 80, tie
summer school of Higher Pedagogy and of
Psychology will be held at Clark Univer-
sity, Worchester.
On July ~. the Falmouth Summer Insti-
tuta and Culturing Camp opens at Fal-
mouth, aud no doubt the presence there of
G. II. Parkhurst will attract many OF his