Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
AMERICAN SUMMER SCHOOLS.

| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. schools both
| general and special, have become SO numer-
GUS in the United States that . complete
| list of them is a very difficult thing to COM
pile. It will be admitted in all directions
that the largest and most elaborate of the
| general schools is at Cautauqua. DR.. Will
lam R. Harper, President of the University
of Chicago, is principal of all the educa-
tional work that centers about Chautauqua
July and continues until August II. Be-
sides the Chautauqua College number of
special schools will be in session. Thus,
from July to q Colonel Francis Parker,
of the Cook County Normal School, Chi
cago, with the assistance of nine or ten
specialists in the training of teachers. will
conduct department of pedagogy. From
July 6 to August II there will be in opera
tion series of schools of sacred literature,
under Prof. Harper and various other dis
tinguished theologians and scholars DR..
H. R. Palmer, of New York, from July 10
to August 10, conducts a school of music
with number of assistants. DR.. W. G.
Anderson, of Brooklyn, is at the head of
school Of physical education, and the mis-
cellaneous classes which will be in opera
tion cover great range of subjects.
BAY VIEw-Probably the largest sum-
mer university in the country except
Chautauqua is that which has for some
years been held at Bay View, Mich. 1t is
announced that Prof. Richard 7. Ely will
henceforth be in charge of this university
as its principal The annual attendance at
Bay View, which is charmingly situated at
the head of Lake Michigan, reaches 25,0UO.
1t opens this year on July II, and closes
August 10.
For TEACHERs-As summer school de-
signed particularly for teachers the Martha's
Vineyard Institute, the fifteenth annual
session of which opens on July II: claims
for itself ''the honorable distinction of
being the oldest, the largest, and the broad
est summer school for teachers in the United
States" Its attendance last year was over
600 Another summer school particularly
for teachers will hold its eighth annual ses-
sion at GIens Falls, N. Y, during the three
weeks beginning Tuesday, July 19.
THE UNIVERSITIES may be
said Of some other Of Harvard's recent inno-
vations, there can be but one opinion as to
the broad and generous spirit that has been
shown by President Eliot and the governing
bodies of Harvard, in throwing open the
facilities of the institution to all who may
choose to enter upon one or more of most
interesting and stimulating variety of
special summer courses. These include for
the summer of 1892 four courses in chem
istry, two in botany, two in physics, three
in geology, three in engineering, two each
in German, French and physical culture,
and single courses in physiology, American
socialism and social problems, trig-
onometry, horticulture, English, history
and art of teaching, besides courses at the
medical school and general lectures free to
students in any OF the courses. Most of the
work begins about July 1 and continues
some six weeks. The good example of Har-
ward is now to be followed at Ithaca, N. Y.
Summer courses will be offered at Cornell
University this year, its Libraries, labora-
tories and museums being opened during
six weeks Of July and August.