The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-07-01
FOR SUMMER STUDY.
INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE lNCREAS-
ED THE CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE,.

Chautauqua, the Parent of Them All. ana
Its Wonderful Work-The Catholic Sum
mer School at Plattsburg-The Colorado
and Similar Summer Schools.
The summer schools of today are
among the most important factors in the
educational development of the nation.
They are to be found i'll every part Of
the land. and they are attended in the
aggregate by hundreds of thousands Of
earnest seekers after knowledge. To
their hetaehcent influence many cult
waited men and women OF these times
owe most Of their book learning and
instances are not lacking in which sue
cessful men Of affairs date the beginning
Of their worldly prosperity as well as
their mental cultivation from their first
days Of attendance upon the teachings
oHHersd at these institutions.
So like the Chautarlla summer school
in general plan and scope are they all
that their entire development may be
justly spoken of as the evolution Of the
"Chautauuua idea," and the Chauta1l-
qua school may be fairly considered the
parent institution, It was in 1874 that
a summer camp for instruction in ad-
vanced methods of Sunday school work
was established on the shores of the high
lying lake in western New York that
has given the entire movement it's name.
The originators Of this work were Mr..
Lewis Miller Of Akron, o., and Rev. j.
H. Vincent, D. D.. HOW a bishop in the
Methodist Episcopal church, then the
r,f t1,ot
nation.
Among the first things done in work
ing out the plan which was adopted was
the laying out on the grounds that had
been purchased of the models of Pales-
tine, Jerusalem, the Tabernacle and the
Pyramid Of Cheops. The success of the
school was immediate, and it has grown
with marvellous rapidity from year to
year ever since. Though there is still a
distinctively religious flavor about every
thing pertaining to the Ch;lutluqua
school, the course of study is by no
means con'.4,al to religious topics, but
takes in Il! aHsfa every subject of human
inquiry.
From an Official announcement of the
work to be done at Chautauqua this
sions July s and close Aug. 22. The
three main divisions Of study will be the
college and schools Of sacred literature,
under the principalship of President
Harper of Chicago university; the school
Of music, under the principalship Of DR..
Fl. R. Palmer, and the school Of physical
education, under DR.. WillianIA Ander~
son Of Yale There will be 1n..ny distin-
guished lecturers, including Professor R.
D. Roberts Of the London University
Extension society, Professor Henry
Drum1nond; Rev Samuel A. Barnett Of
Toynbee Hall, London; DR.. Edward Egg
gleston, Professor George H. Palmer, DIR.
Herrick johnson, Professor Richard T.
Ely, Miss Eliza Skidmore and others.
During the years Of Chautauquas de-
velopment a veritable summer city has
grown up in the grove on the lake shore.
There are hotels and boarding houses
and substantial frame cottages as we'll
as tents galore, besides the buildings in
which is carried on the work Of the
school. The most imposing of these is
the new anphitheater, which is built in
a convenient ravine and is far more inn
pressive from within than from without.
The annual attendance at Chautauqua is
very large, and the increase does not
seem to be in the least affected by the
growing number Of summer schools in
other parts Of the country. More wom-
ell than men study at Chautauqua, but
the men and women who go there are
alike earnest in their work, and all
possess certain high and fine enthusi-
place that are quite the equal of the col
lege feeling that comes to students of
regular universities.