The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-25
How Work and Play
MiS at Chadtddqua
Special Correspondence ot The Tribune.

Chautauqua. y. y. July o.
A LTHOUGH THE assembly has been in ses'i'n
ID only two weeks, the machinery nj the
"A place has dropped into its proper grooves
and there is never hitch 10 he noted
anywhere. Every hour in the day has its duties
and no one from the little kindcrgaitner TO the
lecturers has any time to waste. His satanic
majesty finds so few idlers here that he has 20
seek employment elsewhere perhaps across the
lake or down at naughty Cclcron. There is
study IN the ar this month, and, try as you
may, you cannot escape the contagon. II at
trsctcd by the view and lake breeze, YOU stroll
up on college hill. there is seen a whole army
of students and college professors, looking 80
wise and intellectual that you have an intense
desire IN he like them, and hurry away lest you
are tempted to join all the classes. Go down
TO the lakeirort, and think by watching the
boating, the bathers. and the little folks playing
in the sand, you will forget there is such thing
as summer school. Just as you have assumed
an easy loafng position, you will hear sweet
sounds floating over the water Study againl
The students Of Professor Harry Wheeler, Of New
York, are taking advantage of the presence of
this eminent vocal teacher at Chautauqua to pre-
pare for the winters work. Move along to the
south shore, and there are the gymnasium and
schools of physical education. with hundreds of
boys and girls, young men and women in train.
ing. In despair you turn tn the Arcade, and
before you are aware ot II you are drawn into
one Of the fancy work classes and Join the great
army Of ombrodcrers who put IN more hours
day than any other class of students here. This
latter applies TO some men as we'll AZ women.
for one day last week young college man was
seen in an amrhitheatre audience working in.
lustriouSly on sofa pillow for his college room.
The lecture program has been unusually strong
and the variety of subjects 30 great that one
must he peculiar ndeed who could not find
something 10 his taste. Those who contemplated
visit TO the an.hmcrican had every opportun.
ity Of being informed before going there; for
there was at least one lecture on the exposition
every day last week. The subject was treated
from all points of view by men well vers,d in
their text. Among the speakers were DR.. A. u.
Benedict. who discussed the "Ethnoloey and
Archaeology Of the Exposition" DR.. Sclim II.
Peabody talked about the "scope NJ Organization
aud tho Field of Exhibits Covered at the Expo
sition;" Professor George +. Sever described the
Electrical Features of the Pan. Americana"
Frank W Taylor lecturcd on the Industrial As.
poets of the Expostion;" and Rev. Albert L.
Hudson spoke on "E1uCatilnIl Aspects Of the
Pan. American" No lecturer on Jurcy sCcn-
tihc subject has ever attracted more attention
than i fessor Ernest Ashton Smith. Of ALE.
gheny college. who gave a series of five lectures
on "a Social Study of the South" Professor
Smith spent years in Georgia. Maryland and 9th.
or southern states making a study of the ccono'
mic problems Of those regions, and has given us
the results Of his Investigations. The love nj
the southerners for the mother Chau,auqua
grows with the passing years, and each season
brings larger number Of them here. \ party Of
thirty came in during the week from Texas alone,
twenty from Mississippi, and the other southern
states are equally we'll represented at Chautau-
qua. II il these southerners that especially sp.
rrcciatc Professor Smiths lectures, and after he
is through speaking they crowd around him to
express their pleasure in his treatment of the
subject