New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-06
WORK AT CHAUTAUQUA.
WHAT THE VARIOUS CLASSES ARE DOING
AN ORGAN RECITALr-TuE TEACHER:' RETREAT
Mss BISHOP on HOW NOT TO GROW OLD
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Mss BISHOP on HOW NOT TO GROW OLD
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Chautauqua, July 5-The organ recital By Professor
flagler this morning included selection. from Men.
delssohn. Rublnseln. Chopin. Flotow and Batiste
The school OF music opened today in Sherwood Hall
The morning classes Include primary intermediate and
advanced harmony voice culture, chorus drill song
recital and plano recitals take up the afternoon In
the early evening there is a model singing class.
free 10 ali who can read music. Nearly Jog have
already enrolled The classes are in charge OF Pro
fessOrs Sherwood Flager, Leason Wheeler and Pal
mer.
Colonel Francis w. Parker, principal OF Cook County
Normal school at Chicago, is principal OF the Teachers
Retreat which Will hold It's first session to morrow
This department began its work about fifteen years ago
and last 300 teachers took the pedagogical course
This afternoon Colonel Parker said The course IS
tentative and Is intended to arouse an interest in
| teachers to study the art OF teaching The science
OF education Is In It's Infancy. The doctrine at the
basis OF our system Is that Of concentration. the
same as that taught in the IIerbartian Schsol for
tho Training of Teachers at Jena under Professor
Rein Each study is linked TO the other ttcr a
definite plan and nothing Is taught in an Isolated way
We do not present methods to be Initiated but
aim to understand the laws Of the mind and to
teach ali subjects with reference TO their organic
relation 10 each other The child begins under this
doctrine all sub ccts OF study when he enters school
science and history taken up the first year and
continued through the whole course The child is n
spontaneous investigator and his Investigations alould
DC directed and kept up all sides. Reading and
arithmetic are learned incidentally In the study Of
the central subjects OF thought All the modes by
which human being expresses thought, by gesture,
music. modelling, drawing painting and the oral
and written language developed by exercise, and
the purpose of the exercises Is to Intensity thought
II We want to know the of history must
EDO nv q hut.
geography per is the present appearance Of the
earh's surface. and geology is the history OF that
present appearance. Mineralogy is the science Of the
material which forms the carth's surface: physics
and chemistry the sciences OF the forces which
have brought about all these changes. Geography
Is the material basis and explanation of life. The
function of the earth is life. We study this function
first Of vegetable life IN botany, and second Of
animal life IN zoology. This leads TO the
study OF mans lie In anthropology and 10 community
life in ethuology. The recording Of com
munity life Is history. Here We have n perfect
unity OF creation. We all hold II In theory, but 1t
has hardly reached the door Of the school room
There is only study, the study OF HE and the
laws OF life. There Is division Of the intellectual
and moral studies. All study is purely moral and
all expression purely ethical that is the expression
Of truth for the good OF man."
Z" Whittier and Longfcllowr was the subject Of
Professor Gllmore's lecture at o'clock. Mrs C. f.
Bishop. teacher Of Desarte. gave Interesting and
Instructive talk in the Hall Of Philosophy at }
O'Clock on the subject. How Not TO Grow Old.'
she said We in large measure realize the
prophecy. the child shall die hundred years Old,
but in order 10 do this we must retain the cmld's
open, teachahe split. Old age Is not in years but
IN certain effects which years supposed to produce
inevitably. Happily, what these effects slah be
each person in large degree determine for him
self We cannot prevent the lines and the white
hair appearing, but the lines the taccry Of
thought and emotion and do not indicate old age ;
and a halo OF white hair IS rather a symbol Of
publication The moment that become set and
opinionatcd. not only do unpleasant tracerics
appear upon the face. but we also
begin to fossilize in body. We must be free. II wo
would not grow old. We nearly all slaves TO
prejudice. public opinion and fear. Vegetable. ami
nal or thought life that Is cramped becomes stuned.
cnfeebled, prematurely old We should so discipline
our body that do the ordinary acts OF life
standing sitting rising. walking, talking Breathing,
thinking eating and sleeping in the easiest. most
economical. best The body should have as good
chance for expression IS given the soul and mind
In fact the expression of the soul is mind
Mind depends upon the body for 1t IS the instrument
Of expression"
Mrs Bishop made her points both graphic and per
suasve By personal Illustration proving concusvely
TO all tcachable minds that corpulency, reidy and
seeming defornity, common, wholly unnecessary
Some people settle down literally when they reach
certain age matter Of principle rather than OF
necessity. The sitting posture in which the upper
torso rests upon the abdomen, aud which is usually
thought 10 be so comfortable IS really wicked
one, for It disturbs the harmonious workings
OF the delicate interior organs upon which
health depends. Clildrn and young old people
seem to spurn the ground in walking, Nightly do
they touch IL but with the majority OF people there
seems 10 be a combat between their wills and gravity
in which gravity gets tho advantage II We may judge
by the heavy thuds which accompany each step. lhr
chief factor in producing old especially wlih
Americans, might BE- said 10 be tension, what tho
scientists would call Ovcr-Iirrvation. We waste
vital force IN holding our bodies erect, In holding
our heads on In holding the arms In aWkWar
unnatural positions, when uyin; 10 rest. We
WOO old age when thus uscicssly work II We want
10 keep Young must learn how to rest because II
f. only during rest whether sleeping waking, that
physical repairs made. Laughter brings rest and
reircs hmcut because il relaXcS.H
Mics Margaret trOetZ and Professor A. IL. Mer
r this evening entertained large audience In tho
Anlphtheatrc Miss Goetz has a cOntrslto voice. Dor
derlng on mezzosoprano. The quality Is nch, he
enuncation especially clear. Professor Merrill reclted
selections from Artemus Ward. Victor Hugo and
Thomas Nelson Page. Among other arrivals to-day
are Professor Frederick X Starr, OF New York Miss
Clara Conway, OF Memphis, Tenn. Lewis stewart, OF
Lake Forest, H.. and Miss NJ. A. Barney, Of Mead
Vile, Penn.