The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-06-19
MoRGANTowN, WEST VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. JUNE 49, 1897



Pronounced Sha-taw qua, and mean
ing a bag full at both ends and tied in
the middle.)
Chantauqua is the French spelling
/ of an Indian name for beautiful
lake in southwestern New York,
where the first great summer school
was established by Lewis Miller.
Here every year the another Chau-
tauqnan is continued under the Pres
idency Of Lewis Miller with DR.. John
Ii. Vincent as Chancellor. The
courses of study embrace almost eve
cry known subject taught in the
largest and best Universities of our
land, and are intended to supplement
the courses which have been begun
by teachers and others at home.
Pedagogy is made specially and
there is no better summer training
in existence" than the one carried
on at Chantauqua Lake every sum
mer from about July LIST to the last
Of August. The only difficulty in
the way of most of our teachers is
the cost Of attending the Great Orig
inal Chautauqua. Would it pay to
attend such school? Well, it is
not exaggeration to say, that two
months stay at such a school with
eyes and ears and heart open could
not be duplicated in value to the
student in any city in our land. In
the first place you are brought into
contact with the best people of the
land, people Of culture and piety, and
the very atmosphere is redolent of
love and delight, OF beauty and
brightness, and we fairly drink in
learning as though from the goblet
that Jupiter sips.
Our own Chautauqua is TO be
opened for the first time this sum
mer. Where? On Mt. Pisgah, in
Clay County, and near Clay G. H.,
and the cost of attending this sum
-mer school will be very moderate.
We say all our West Va. teachers
and citizens too who can afford a
ten days outing should attend this
opening session of the w. Va. Chau-
tauqua. Why What will be the
advantage?
~ You ought spend that much
time away from the scene of your
years labors; the recreation will be
worth more than the entire cost of
trip and your real life will be length
ened by the inauguration received.
(2) You will there hear many of
the greatest lecturers of this coun-
try, each of whom will not only in
spire you with ambition and hope,
but will delight and inform you, and
you will go back home determined
to make more of your prosy exist
ence than it ever seemed possible
before. Earth itself will become
temple and life one continued act of
alteration.
(S) You will there meet with PEG
pie who are capable Of approaching
what you are, and who will do and
can do for you an amount of good
that you had never imagined the
heart of a stranger capable OF I'M
Outstanding. What made the Greeks
the greatest people of the ancient
world? Contact with other peoples
What gave them their intellectual
mastery Contact with other minds.
What brought their powers and abil
tiles into recognition? Contact with
the stronger and Weather powers.
who, seeing their ability, were com
PEELED bv admiration To do them
honor.
just such contact with bright and
clear thinkers, with cultivated and
strong minds. we all need. else we
begin to imagine either that there is
little advantage in knowing any
thing outside of the simplest eic,
ments, or that we ourselves are very
wise. Both these Illusions will be
dispelled or broken by contact with
the outside world.
az 'rhe more important reason
for attending the Chautanana will
be to persue some special study
which you have long desired to he
gin or which YOU have begun and
desire tocontinue or complete. OPP
portunities will be given in the sum
MGR school on Mt. Pisgah to begin.
to continue, or to complete almost
any study from Elocution and Music
to Science and Languages and to
study Kindergarten methods. Physi-
cal Culture, aud Disciplinary Tao
tics.