Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-09

which comprises daily ar
of lectures, concerts, dramatic
recitals and other exercises. In the vast
every evening some famous
lecturer, concert or mixed entertainment
attracts throngs of people.
Extra fees are exacted for class instruc-
ton, which includes: (a) Chautauqua col
lege For those who desire to study thor
oughly and persistently during six weeks
instruction is offered in ancient and mod
ern languages, literature, history, natural
sciences, political economy and philosophy.
Cb) Schools of sacred literature, providing
courses in Bible study, both in the original
languages and in English, under leading
Biblical specialists. (c) A pedagogical course
for public school teachers extending over
period of three weeks and including in
struction in psychology, pedagogical prin-
ciples and their practical application to the
teaching of arithmetic, geography, science,
etc. I'D A school of music, teaching the
theory and practice of instrumental and
vocal music. (e) a school of physical edu-
cation for both sexes in all branches of
gymnastics, athletic contests, rowing, etc.
u Other classes in art, photography, in
dustrial drawing, china decoration, manual
training, elocution and shorthand.
As a supplementary aid to the above to
be pursued in home reading and study was
founded in 1878 the Chautauqua Literary
and Scientific circle. The plan of this in
tellectual annex, so to speak, offered to
self educating people either as individuals
or in groups known as local circles" COM
prehends the following essentials: A care
fully outlined course in history, literature,
science and art, an apportionment of re-
quired reading and several other aids, the
details of which the reader, if he be thus
interested, will not find it difficult to gain
information. Congenial associations are
fostered at Chautauqua by means of a num-
Der of clubs which meet daily for the discus
sion of topics that interest them; the Girls
club, which serves a similar purpose for
young women between the ages of T. and IS;
the Boys congress, modelled after the legis-
lative body of the United States, affording
practice in parliamentary debate and modes
of procedure; the boys and girls class,
which meets during the first fortnight in
August for the study of Bible geography
and history: the Sunday school normal
class for the training of Sunday school
teachers in the way they should go; kin
dergarten for the entertainment and in
struction of the little people; the French
club, made up of students who are learn
aid them in acquiring French conversation;
the German club, which meets for a sim
liar purpose, not to mention private clubs
and reading circles having for their chief
end a better knowledge of certain fad"
authors of the past and present.
The regulations and bylaws in force at
Chautauqua of course have n bearing on
the situation at Chautauqua at all times.
The free and easy mind might wonder how
much of a cat in strange garnet he might
be there. Not so much a strange cat would
he be were he normal and kindly recip-
lent of good things. Surely there is wide
range daily to choose from. AS to living,
you may dwell in the hotel where you can
have all the good things of life save wine
and liquor, and those are not what you
should or would go to Chautauqua for, or
you may live in more or less cramped
cottage hotel at from s. to Sl2 per week.
You do not live sumptuously there. You
go there for more or less acceptable meals
and a bed. But you are not in ChautauQua
for comfort of body entirely You are con-
ceding to the wants of your moral and in
tellectual nature in going there.
If you are so disposed, you can have fur
nished cottage or you may go into furnished
rooms. Even cooperative housekeeping is
resorted to, especially among parties of
young women, who thus reduce the cost of
their living per week for each person to so
modest sum as $3.50. There are limited
number of dormitories for nice young men
at 81 per week. Those who do not care for
meat and are not vegetarians can buy ice
cream, cheese and bread and butter in the
town at market prices, also ice and wood.
Chautauqua is so important point during
its annual stir that special tickets are issued
from all the principal points in the United
States and Canada to it. The postal, ex-
press, telegraph and telephone service in
Chautauqua is a convenient and efficient
one.
1t should not be inferred from the fore
going references to the vigorously moral
character Of Chautauqua that all the sum-
mer jewellers there are purely ascetic in
habit. Very few of them indeed do not in
dulge in some of the numerous means of
recreation, such as tennis, baseball, bicy-
cling, horseback riding, driving, rowing,
amateur theatricals, etc. LEON MEAD.