Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-11-06

election held in Bismarck for years.
\ NEW EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT
At this time of the year when the
doors of a hundred thousand schools
are opening to receive the youth of the
land. the mothers and fathers and am
bilious young people who must stay
a. home are hungering for educational
opportunities. They realize that.
either things being equal. position. use
fulness and happiness are in propor-
ten to culture, and they long for some
practical plans that will help them to
turn their spare moments into school
md college terms. Complex modern
life and the battle for material exist
encs leave the world no more of the
cid spare time leisure for mental ana
people are hungering for intellectual
food and craving mental stimulus and
would be grateful for some plan that
would offer guidance and help. These
reflections came to me forcibly during
a delightful outing this year at Bay
View, the great summer educational
centre. an Northern Michigan. I
found there and studied a new educa-
tional movement which I feel sure
many readers of the Tribune wall be
glad to know about.
4 few years ago MI. J. NJ. Hall. a
young lawyer was at the head of a
large young peoples Bible class and
in his desire to give the members a
better prospect in life he established
a reading club which soon became
widely known. Others from far and
wide began calling for his plans, and
to meet the growing demand for self
culture plans, the Bay View Reading
Club az established. Mr.. Hall still
remains at the head of the work, which
he directs from the headquarters in
Detroit. Michigan and without court
ing publicity the organization has not
only spread over this country but has
entered Canada, Mexico, Germany,
China and the Hawaii Islands. MI.
Halls genius in conducting club stud
les is everywhere being recognized b.
women's clubs. of which more than
$50 have in the past fifteen months
adopted the Bay View course. The
plans are simple, but there is intelli,
gent system: and history. and litera.
ture and travel are deity Joined in 8
reading journey of a most delightful
character. I learned that last yea
the members were on a study tour o
| Italy. Greece and Switzerland but thi,
year u w country. the best Of al
lands. will be studied, in its history
. literature. art and institutions. !
! month will also be spent in Mexico.
During the summer l often met a
5 the annual gatherings at Bay View tn
members from many states and al
. ways heard from them the most en-
) thusiastic reports. The member
were mostly like myself, bread wir
e ners. and the course has been carrie
l. on in the brief panses in the days o,
cupation. But daily I heard in til
elegant conversation and saw in til
intelligent faces the marked tran,
formation wrought when people rea
J. for 2 purpose. This is not the pla,
a. to enter into a description of the pla1
Of the Bay View reading course
s. card addressed to MI. Hall will a1wa,
d secure them. l am concerned mo
al in reviving the hope of the bus
e women and aspiring young people
ct again take up the pleasures of bool
and study for which this readiI
course seems to me to offer the be
a practical plans. ] am sure a gre
many who are looking for feasible su
a. gesrions for winter reading will thar
y the editor for publishing this article.
D. DOROTHY STILES.
le Cando. N. D., Nov. ). 1902