New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-14
STUDY AT CHAUTACQUA.
MANAGING THE MIsCTIEvOUs ELEMENT.
LECTURES BY EMINENT sPECIAM:Ts-CoLoNEL
PAHKERrS WAR DESCRIPTIONS.


PARKERls WAR DESCRIPTIONS.
rBY TELEGRAPH TIE TkiDUNE7
ChautauQua n. Y, July 13.-ChautauGua is 80 well
regulated and So safe place that this very condition
has sometimes threatened its peace. Parents have felt
that children especially boys, could roam about at
their pleasure and needed no looking after. TINS
opinion was not the ono generally held ana among
plans toward engaging the miscevCus element in use
full exercise are two which promise to be popular :
twelve more boys into the Cbautauaua Congress
this morning and assigned to the House and the
senate There Il suggestion OF lobbying In 'ae
rronps eagerly engaged in conversation before the
eavel fell The business transacted Included ''e
presentation of q bill to institute q search LOT inc
North Pole.
About forty boys met Mr.. stage this morning and
the Chautauqua Athletic Association was formed ior
beys from nine TO eighteen years OF age MI o'"ss
was elected president, Clark vice president ana
Maxwell Chick secretary and treasurer Inc CON
stitution drawn up by q committee d nine provides
that the object OF the association shall be to furhSh
recreation and TO promote allaround physioa' u'
vek.pment Baseball and track athletics, graduated TO
suit the boys, will be practsed every afternoon from
to O'Clock. A.,
Basket ball, q game invented last winter py MI
Nalsmith OF the Springfield. Mass, Y NJ. c. A. IRAN
,no School will also be practsed. One OF lis goo
features is that 1t requires no long practice TO play
and to enjoy It, ,u.
Mrs. Frank Smart Darker gave the second lecture
on physical development 10 the teachers IN 4'o''
Hail. this morning, on the necessity Tor the ""'''7
OF the body. Other lectures OF the course VIII III,
Delsarte training applied TO schools teachers
and It's relation 70 the FREQ OF the body IN expre
sion, ce-trainpg, the oppression OF 'housh' ''U
emotion nv means of the voice, method OF teaching
oral reading how t. study character and its use 10
teachers and unity OF soul and body in expression.
At II O'Clock delegates Of the Society OF 'ni's''"
Endeavor who had been in attendance az ' ~
vention in New-York were welcomed aV a p
meeting IN the Amphtheatre. Bishop N'"oe"s .,S,
Ing The second lecture IN Professor freoeii0N
H,srrs course on anthropology was given TINS al'er
noon lie brings new topics every season anu pio
sents them to large audiences lie Is an "ro""o'o9
by nature and BY education. His lectures are '"'i
terized by wealth OF research and CONDENSATION" anu
are delivered with n spirit and manner "mch MOI"
Al. attention throughout. The Interesting customs
narrated in the lectures yesterday ana To-Day 'ooA ~
hearers into all continents and among all peopFs
The subject Of the lecture today was "Woman anu
the Characteristics of Woman"
Al O'Clock Professor owen Seaman delivered the
third lecture In the Greek the subject being
"Pheidlas and the Ideal"
Dr. w. p Harper lectured at . o'clock on "JoD'
the second circle OF speeches. AT o'clock veSpcr
soryco yeas held Colonel Francis W. Parker in the
lecture this evening on "The Civil War;" showed
large number of relief maps to- Illustrate the strategy
OF the war and incidentally the relation OF this MS
tory with the geography of the country ana now ono
was influenced by the other. lie showed that thcie
were two great lines OF advance for the Union tDps
the Atlantic slope and the Western slope 10 INC
Mississippi The importance Of all the points was
brought out and the way in which each ahec'eo all
other points why certain lines Of invasion were
taken and what were the strategic lines OF advance
The purpose of the two lectures which Colonel Parker
gives on this subject is EDUCATIONAL to substitute lor
the fragmentary ideas generally held Just ap,
prehension of the greatness OF the wal and the grc,
cost of liberty. The second invasion OF Lee ana the
reason for his moving North was given. The accom-.
panying Illustration used 10 show the NalcN OF
the Shenandoah and the battles and strategic p ohIs
from ADpOmatiOX To Gettysburg. Colonel fafkcT
traced Lees advancing army through NrEna TO- me
meeting of Reynold with Hill on WnOugpoy orecA'
when the issue was forced. with the result OF me
first DAYS battle at GETTYSBURG The ranging OF tne
line along Cemetery Ridge the attack Of Longstrects
corps upon sickles and upon the Round Top and the
falling back of Sickles's troops, the attack upon
cnin,s Hill Pckett's charge and the defeat of the
Confederate Army all described