The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-13
SUMNER SCHOOLS.
Chautauqua College and It's Group
Of Special Schools.
The Programme 1t Plymouth - JOSEPH
Cock Will Open the Summer School
Of Christian Philosophy on
Staten Island.
tooPYR1GHT, 1891

mer, the period of rest and recreation,
has become a season of supplemental
| endeavor in the line of learning. A de-
cade since there were a few spasmodic
efforts at the establishment Of summer
schools Of science, history and philos-
| ophy. Now these are fixtures, and the
American scholar has become part OF a
vast peripatetic system OF summer edu-
cation.
No part of the countryis without its
school In the groves OF California,
| under the bright blue skies of Lake
Minnetonka, in Missouri, In Virginia,
at Chautauqua. at Plymouth, at Bay
View, at Cornell, at Harvard, at Lake
side, at Port Richmond, S. l., aye, wher-
ever the scholar abounds, there you
will find the summer school.
Chautauqua easily takes the lead. This
year it opens at delightful Lake Chsu-
tauqua July 6, and continues until Au-
gust II. Again, Dir. William &. 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. all 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
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Francis Parker, of the Cook County
Normal school, aided by nine or ten
specialists, will conduct school of
pedagogy. From July to August II
Prof. Harper, aided by q number of dis
tinguished theologians, will have
charge of school of sacred literature.
From July Is to August 10 DIR. FL. R.
Palmer, of New York, conducts a
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 centers
L
ond annual session of the School of APP
piled Ethics will begin July 6, continu-
ing six weeks. Prof. c. Fl. Toy, of Har-
ward, will be dean and director of the
department of history of religions.
Prof. II. c. Adams, of the University of
Michigan, will direct the department of
economics, 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 Colum-
bia; 1.-The Ritual Law" by Prof. Jost-
now, of the University of Pennsylvania;
1.-The Wisdom Books" by Prof. Toy, of
Harvard; 1.-The Talnlud," 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 Fl. G. Adams, of
the University of Michigan; Theory of
Social Progress" by Prof. F. FL. Ged-
Philanthropy in Social Progress" by
Faith Huntington, of New York, and
Miss Adams, of Chicago; Functions of
Law in Social Progress" by Prof. Taus-
sig. of Harvard; Statistical Presenta-
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. FL. c. Adams.
In the department of ethics the speak
ers will be Prof. William Wallace, of
Oxford DR.. Felix Adler, Prof. John w.
Burgess, of Columbia; w. L. Sheldon,
of ST. Louis; William NJ. Slater, of Phil
adelphia, and Gen. A. B. Nettleton, 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 faculty.
On July IL the great summer school of
the American Institute of Christian
Philosophy will begin at Prohibition
park, Staten Island. The gathering
viii be opened with lecture by Joseph
Evolution" and closed by President Q.
D. Wanfeld, who will present the topic:
1.-THE Philosophy of Education" Among
other speakers will be Prof. Hyslop, of
Columbia; w. NJ T. Round, Hon. Walter
B, Hill, of Georgia; Prof. E. II. Sheath,
of Yale; President ". L. Brown, of the
Alabama Polytechnic institute; Or. G.
Z. 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 IL
perhaps the largest summer school in
the country, barring Chautauqua. Last
year there Were twenty-five thousand in
attendance This year many more are
looked for. This school will be in
charge OF Prof. Richard T. Ely. At
Martha's Vineyard the summer school
is for teachers only but 1t claims the
distinction OF being the oldest, the
largest and the broadest summer school
for teachers in the United States"
Glen's Falls, \. Y, has similar school
which begins July 10. Harvard's sum-
mer course opened July 1, and that Of
Cornell, new departure there, at
about the same time
The American Institute Of Instruc-
ton, more OF convention than a sum-
mer school, has brief session at Nara
gansett pier, beginning July 5.
On July IS. and continuing to July 50,
the summer school OF higher pedagogy
and If r3Sx-ebcloo- -xIiI h. held a&ITlark