The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-23
William Tell

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individual teachers who are taking the
agricultural course, but that of reaching
through the schools all the farming in
terests of Western New York in parti-
cular and of the country in general.
School gardens actually operated by
school children, under the supervision of
the same Cornell instructors, are also a
pretty and striking feature of the work
There are about fifteen of these gardens,
each with a border of flowers, ranging
from the high growing plants to the low
ones, and in the center of the plats COM
mon vegetables are planted An incen-
i've to good work is added by the offer
ing of prizes to the children for the best
arrangement of these flowers and vege-
tables, and for the cultivation of the
ground and the growth of the plants.
Teachers who are studying in this De-
partment have an opportunity, through
the supervision of this work, of doing
laboratory study in school gardening.
They also have the privilege of using in
dividual plats for experimental planting
and cultivation. There are thirteen de-
partments in the Summer Schools, six
included in the ordinary college curricu-
lum and seven given over to specialized
forms of professional work, the term be-
ing divided into two sections of three
weeks each.
The lecture platform of the Mother
Chautauqua has been for some years the
most noted in the world. To the public
program of lecture series and special
addresses are added every year confer
ences or symposium topics of broad pub
lie interest, each week being usually
devoted in the main to a single topic.
The symposia this summer have been
on Religious Education, Social Service,
the Problems of Democracy, Health and
Efficiency, and Country Life. The devel-
opment of character through the college
and university, through the public
schools, through the Sunday schools,
through the churches, through social and
personal hygiene, and through social liv-
ing, formed the special topics of the
Religious Education Symposium, among
the speakers being, DR.. Herbert F.
Willett, George Albert Coe, Clyde W.
Votaw, Edwin D. Starbuck, DIR. George
l. Fisher and Mr.. Henry F. Cope. To
supplement these discussions there were
special conferences on moral and relig-
ious education in the home, conducted by
|. F. Wood, Rev. Lester Bradner, Frank
K. Saunders, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, DIR.
Richard H. Hodge, and Mr.. Henry F.
Cope.
The Social Service Symposium follow
ed in the week of July 18th as logical
development of these discussions and
leading up to those Of Democracy Week
1t was opened by President George E..
Vincent of Chautauqua Institution, who
spoke on the "Socializing of Theology. ="
Duties and opportunities in connection
with the care of needy children, the
social value of the church, the labor
unions and human brotherhood, the city
and kingdom, and our country and the
world, were among the topics considered.
Some of the speakers were Homer Folks,
DR.. W. M. Tippy, Rev. Frank Mason
North, DR.. w. NJ Balch and DIR. Josiah
Strong.
Perhaps the most significant lecture
series was that of Mr.. Charles Zueblin,
who spoke in Democracy Week with re-
markable fearlessness and candor or
existing conditions under the genera
head of implications of Democracy
Mr.. Zuebin began by vigorously attack
ing the Constitution, calling it antiquat.
ed, and declaring the idea of ''The great.
est good for the greatest number" or
which it is based, perncious and an ex
cuse for evading a national duty. He
declared that government of the people,
by the people and for the people SHOULD
mean that no single human being is lefr
out of the social scheme This furnished
keynote for powerful arraignmen
of American public morals, deepened il
the succeeding lectures. Distinguished
speakers in the same week were Branl
Whitlock, the reform Mayor of Toledo
an acute student of present day polite:
| and municipal needs; DR.. Smaller Math.
, ews of Chicago, Hon. Leslie M. Shaw
7 Ex-Secretary of the United States Treas
J ury. and DR.. Russell H. Conwell, who il
probably the foremost of American lee
turers.
J In Health and Efficiency week, begin
) ming August Sth, the topics were liv,
, ones. Different phases of the question
{ of mental treatment of disease were dis
t cussed by such speakers as DR.. Henry B
I Favill, President of the American Soci
, ETY. for Mental Hygiene, and Rt. Rev
: Samuel Fallows, Rector of St. Paul's R
E. church, Chicago; and other aspects o.
, the health question were presented by
) DR.. w. T. McElveen of the First Congre