St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10
susaMER SCHOOLS.
Vacation for Regular Students Means
the Beginning Of Hard Work for
Others. o.

Vacation for Regular students Means
the Beginning of Hard Work for
Others.
The iChautauqua Summer School, now for
many years in such successful operation, has
given an impetus to study second only to the
colleges, and In some respects, particularly
in the inducements to homes study, surpass-
. ing the regular institutions OF learning.
Chautauqua associations are now in active
operation in many States, and even in New.
Zealand, Tasmania and Australia efforts are
being made to follow along the lines marked
out by the managers OF the great institution
on Lake Chautauqua. The effect OF these So
cieties and circles on theculture of the people
is already evident, and must become more
manifest as the years rob round.
At Chautauqua there has always been blend
ing OF the social features Of q summer outing
with the lectures aud classes. Under the cir .
cumstances the social side OF life at Chautau-
qua, and the many State Ghautauquas that are
followingits example, isnot only unavoidable
but desirable. Realizing, however, that a
change Of labor is even moro restful and
beneficial than cessation from all labor, the
colleges of the land are coming to realize that
many men and women, and particularly
teachers who have long vacation, would
avail themselves of a more systematic train
ing if the advantages were presented and have
decided to have summer terms, just to meet
such cases.
The Massachusetts, Institute of Technology
has a summer school, which while originally
intended for the benefit Of its regular stu
dents, has wisely thrown open its doors to all
students, on the payment of a moderate adj
mission fee that barely sufices to meet the
additional expense; but the regular students
are admitted to the summer course free OF :
charge. Instead of remaining in Boston. the
summer faculty of the Institute have decided
to lecture to classes at different points. This
month, June, the summer school of mining
will open at Eustis, in the Province of Quebec,
where the students wilLhave an opportunity
of seeing the mining of copper, silver and
sulphur and the partial smelling of the ores.
Instead of living in boarding houses, the
students will live in tents, in military fashion.
This method of living and study gratifies the
students greatly; it resembles the methods
adopted by the ancient Greek philosophers,
and without doubt it will prove more adj
vantageous in every way than the methods
adopted at the headquarters of the Institute.
Classes interested in metallurgy will be taken
to some manufacturing centres, particularly
where there-is ore smelling and refining, and
there they can study the processes direct. In
the same month the summer school of topog-
raphy and geology will open its third year,
as will also the school of civil engineering
The last three schools, instead of being con-
fined to one place, will wander about like in
tellectual gypsy encampments, studying as
they go, and gaining physical strength with
intellectual development and practical work.
Harvard, always in the advance, announces
for the present summer courses in English,
French, German, Anglo-Saxon, History,
Pedagogy, Psychology, Geometry, Engineer
ing, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geology and
Physical Training. Here surely there is
enough to select from, and women as we'll as
men are admitted on an equal footing with
the privilege Of all these courses. The lee
lures and Rotations will be held in the
regular University buildings, which, though
lacking many of the advantages of the
wandering schools will be compensated for
by the fact that the great library at Cam
bridge will be accessible to all the students.
From its first organization the University
of Michigan, at Ann Harbor, has been wide
= awake, broad and progressive. = It,awas
among the first of the great schools to inaugu-
rate summer course, and this summer
students who will avail themselves of its adj
vantages will be enabled to take courses in
English History, Mathematics, Philosophy,
Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geology and
even Latin 1t has been noticed that nearly
all the summer students at Ann. Harbor are
teachers in high schools or preparatory
academies, and that women, even more than
the men, attend it's lectures and are among
the most earnest students.
Cornell is never behind. For several years
it has had summer classes, and during the
present season its course will be broadened,
SO that in addition to the scientific subjects
taught in other colleges, it will offer peculiar
advantages to students in PhiIotogy. San
scrit Greek, Latin German, French and
Spanish will be taught by competent profess
sors; and there will be lectures on Pofiti-
cal Economy. Even the aesthetic side has
not been forgotten. Drawing, painting and
designing will be important features of this
broad course. These classes will begin reci-
tation on July 6, and will continue for six
weeks, while students of law will be enabled
to devote eight weeks to the study. Women
as well as men are admitted, and regular
students will be credited on their respec-
tive courses for the amount of time they
spend in the summer school. As the city
of Ithaca is one of the most charming in
the State, and of easy access, we may be
sure that the summer school at Cornell will
be, like everything else it undertakes, a grand
success.
In addition to these great schools, the
University of Indiana, at Bloomington, will
begin its summer course ON June &C. It
speaks well for the broadness of the Min
nesota Legislature that they have appro-
priated $4,000 a year to the support of
summer schools for their public school
teachers. These schools, instead of being
conferred at one point, as is the case with
the regular universities, are held all over
the State, under the direction of competent
instructors all of whom are connected with
MI