The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-06
AT cHAUTAUoUA.

early part of the Chautauqua season is the summer schools, and the importance Of these is increasing yearly. Several additions and new buildings have been made this year to accommodate the in creased requirements.
 This has become the Mecca of teach CTS who have the ambition to keep | abreast of the latest developments in their particular lines, and yet have not time or opportunity to go to the great universities for this work People gen. erally have no idea of the scope Of this | summer Chautauqua university. You could count on your fingers the institu- 1 tons which equal it in size. Besides assistants, there are eighty-twO mem Ders of the faculty, representing thirty 1 colleges and universities, including the United States Naval Academy at An napolis, Md, Yale, Massachusetts Insti- ute of Technology. Cornell, Teachers College of New York, University of Chi cago and University of Michigan, Ale gheny college and Bucknell university. Add to these a student body of between four and five thousand, and you have quite considerable advance over the little red school house."
 And the schools are of sufficient in1- ! portance to command an annual appro- priation from the New York legislature to provide for the free tuition of teach CTS in the public schools of that state, and an examination by the state board of regents, with all the advantages in the way of university credit, Sc, that go with their certificate.
 The most of the hard work at Chau- | tauqua is done during the month of July. and August is given up to the play without which Jack would be dull boy | indeed.
 The entertainment offered the visitor this summer is particularly fine. MT. Frank R. Robertson, who has made a name at Chautauqua in years past for l the finish and beauty of the lantern l slides with which his lectures are illus | trated, has been in the West Indies making large number of views of the recent volcanic eruptions of Mount Pe- lee and Mount Souffriere, and the result of this work will appear on the screen at Chautauqua.
 l National Army day is an occasion of ! atlSLE tllail usual IIltGEG6l. IHG uuUlUGE of southerners who spend their sum- mers at Chautauqua is so large that the music of Dixie" never reaches the sec- ond bar before it is fairly drowned with the applause it calls out. At the dag raising ceremonies in connection with the great flag staff out by the main col lege building it was Confederate ser geant from Louisville. Ky, who carried the Stars and Stripes in the procession with a Union soldier from New York, and they jointly flung 1t to thfs breezes. Sectional lines are pnknoWn, and it has been as often Confederate as Union speakers who have delivered the ad- dress on National Army day. And nev- CT speaker had warmer reception than did General John B. Gordon or General Fitzhugh Lee. The oration this year will be by General John c. Black on | 'The Evolution of a Leader" 1 All who have read "Sky Pilot" and ''Black Rock" will await with much in- patience the coming of "Ralph Connor," by the Rev. Charles w. Gordon, who Is 1 to read from his own works.
 The policy inaugurated two years ago of having on the programme some great representative of the stage was so sue. cessful beyond all expectation with Joe Jefferson and Francis Wilson, that this year they have called In Clara Morris. Miss Morris has made such profound impression with her recent literary work that her advent on the lecture platform will be an event of great in- l terest.
 l And Dr. W. F. Oldham, former Pittsburg minister, himself a missiona- ry and born of missionary parents in India, is one of the leaders during the conference of missionaries to be held early in August.
 l Old first night is one of the most in- teresting and unique features of the original Chautauqua. This year it will be a particularly impressive occasion | because of the presence of Bishop Vim cent, one of the founders of Chautau- qua, after an absence of two years in Europe His coming has aroused the enthusiasm of many old Chautauquans, and large number of them will be i present on that occasion. It is to be held on the evening of Wednesday, Au- gust 6, on the morning of which day Bishop Vincent will arrive from Flu rope. Among those who have been con- nected with the institution in former years who will be present at this time are President Harper, University of Chicago, MT. Frank Beard, of the Rams Horn Dr. J. M. Buckley, of the Chris l tian Advocate Dr. J. l.. Hurlbut and many others.