The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-14
SUMMER SCHOOLS.
Chautauqua College and It's Group
Of Special Schools
Tho Programme at Plymouth - Joseph
Cook VIII Open the Summer School
of Christian Philosophy on
Staten Island.
[copyRrour, 1921

as nature aOhorS vacuum and sum
mer, the period Of rest and recreation,
has become n season of supplemental
endeavor in the line of learning. A de-
code since there were few spnsmodic
efforts ut the establishment of summer
schools of science, history and philos-
ophy. Now these are fixtures. and the
American scholar has become part of u
vast peripatetic system of summer cdu-
cation.
No part of the country is without it's
school In the groves of California,
under the bright blue skies of Lake
Minnctonka, in Missouri, in Virginia,
at Chautauqua, at Plymouth, ut Bay
View, ut Cornell, ut Harvard, ut Lake
side, at Port Richmond, S. l., ave, wher-
ever the scholar abounds, there you
will find the summer school
Chautauqua easily takes tho lead. This
year it opens at delightful Lake Chau-
tauqua July 6, and continues until Au-
gust II. Again, DR.. William r. Harper,
president of the University of Chicago,
will have charge of all the educational
work But Chautauqua college has
grown, and about it this year will clus-
ter number of special schools, oil in
charge of the most efficient masters in
the country. Chautauqua college will
devote itself to English, French and
German languages and literature, pre-
paratory and college Latin and Greek,
mathematics, physics, chemistry, geol-
ogy, mineralogy, botany, history,
political economy, social science and
psychology. From July 6 to 81 Col.
Francis Parker, of the Cook County
Normal school, aided by nine or ten
specialists, will conduct q school of
pedagogy. From July 6 to August II
Prof Harper, aided by number of dis
tinSuished theologians, will have
charge of a 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 DC at the head of the
school for physical education, while
miscellaneous classes covering great
range of subjects will be in charge of
Elcn of distinction in respective lines
Bat among the advanced thinkers of
the Cay the deepest interest ccnters
about Plymouth, Mass, where the sec
ond annual session of the School of Ap-.
piled Ethics will begin July 6, continu-
ing six weeks. Prof. c. II. Toy, of IIar-
vari, will be dean and director of the
department of history of religions.
Prof. III. C. Adams, of the University of
Michigan, will direct the department of
economies, and Prof. Felix Adler, of
New York, will be at the head of the
department of ethics. Here is list of
subjects in the Religious" department
which will attract the scholars of all
creeds: "The PROPHETS" by Prof.
Moore, OF Andover; Persian Influence
on Judaism" by DR.. jackson, of Column
bia; 1.-The Ritual Law" by Prof. Jost-
now, of the University of Pennsylvania;
'"The Wisdom Books" by Prot. Toy, of
Harvard; "The Talmud," by DR.. 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. II. c. Adams, of
the University of Michigan; ''Theory of
Social Progress" by Prof. L. II. Ged-
dings. 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. Taus-
ton of Industrial and Social Questions"
by Commissioner of Statistics Carroll
d. Wright; Critical Study of the Labor
Problems and the Monopoly Problem"
by Prof. III. C. Adams.
In the Department. of ethics the speak
crs will be Prof. William Wallace, of
Oxforl; DR.. Felix Adler, Prof John w.
Burgess, of Columbia; w. l.. Sheldon,
of st. Louis; William NJ. Slater, of Phil
adclphia, and Gen. A. i. Ncttlcton, of
Washington.
No summer school of philosophy has
ever attempted to cover so wide range
OF topics or has ever succeeded in bring
ing together so great Il faculty.
On July IL the great summer school of
the American Institute of Christian
Philosophy will begin at Prohibition
park, Staten Island. The gathering
will be opened with lecture by Joseph
Cook or Fast and Loose Theories of
Evolution" and closed by President c.
ID. Wanficld, who will present the topic:
The Philosophy of Education" Among
other speakers will be Prof. IIyslop, of
Columbia; w. NJ T.. Round, Hon. Walter
b. Hill, of Georgia. Prof f. II. Sheath,
of Yale; President w. l.. Brown, of the
Alabama Polytechnic institute; Dr. G..
K. w. Scott, of Andover, and DR.. George
Alexander, of New York.
Then at the head of Lake Michigan,
In one of the prcttiest of western towns,
Bay View, there will open on July IL
perhaps the largest summer school in
the country, barring Chautauqua. Lost
year there were twenty-five thousand in
attendance. This year many more are
looked for. This school will be in
oh Of Il. IN III