Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-10
CHAUTAUOUA IS A BIG SUCCESS
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Kellogg, their husbands being with
them on the trip. They were en-
route to Eureka, Cal, to attend
Chautauqua. Mr. Billings quoted
DR.. Sadler as stating that Ashland
babies were the best physically and
the best behaved that he had ever
seen anywhere. Mr.. Billings also
stated that three tiers of seats near
the entrance had been reserved for
mothers with babies, and urged them
not to stay at home because they
had no one to leave the little ones
with.
Professor Peck of Willamette Uni
versity, who introduced himself as a
biologist at large" told of what he
hopes to do in the way of botanical
work. The classes meet at o'clock
in the morning at the band stand.
Professor Isaacs explained the
scope of his chorus work and an
nounced his class period, which will
be in the G. A. r. hall in the morn
ing, at o'clock.
DR., Conklin, professor of psychol-
ogy at the U. of O., will lecture daily
along these lines, at 10 o'clock, in
the G. A. R. building.
DR.. Berchtold of the o. A. c. will
give his lecture on literature at the
kindergarten building in the park at
8 a. m. The subject for study this
year is Men and Women Who Live
and Write"
The storytelling for children will
be at 10 o'clock in the G. A. r. hall,
by Miss Maude Stevens of Chicago.
The evening program given by the
Tyrolean-Alpine Singers was fully
the equal of that given in the after
noon and was very interesting and
entertaining. The manager stated
that the usual American conception
of the German as an individual seat
d
kraut in front of him, glass of beer
in one hand and a bolkgna sausage
in the other, was far from true of the
Tyrolean peasants. Their life was
one round of hard work and often
solitary life in the mountains, re-
jlieved only by their yodling across
from peak to peak to each other.
The songs sung by the company were
the folk songs of the mountain peas
ants, most if not all of them COM
posed by the peasants themselves. At
each concert the company rendered |
one or more selections in English,
but the leader stated that none of |
them were sufficiently proficient to
sing entirely in that language even
if the folk songs could be translated |
into another language. They will be
welcomed in Ashland should they |
ever appear here again.
Tuesdays Sessions.
Most of the classes were well at
tended Tuesday and got started in
good shape.
Tuesday afternoon lecture, Gov
eminent by instruction" delivered by |
DR.. William Parsons of Eugene, was
a thorough, deep and interesting
study into many of the vital prob
lens confronting the American peo-
pie today.
In the evening Professor Baum
gardt gave as a prologue to his lee
ture on The Fields and Fjords of
Norway" a series of views of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado which
were beautiful in the extreme. Pro-
fessor Baumgardt is strong on See
ing America First" and his talk on
the Grand Canyon was very interest
ing. He is a great admirer of the
Norwegian people and spoke elo-
quently of the manner in which they
have solved the problems before
them. Especially he dwelt on the
success of the Gothemburg system,
as il is called, of dealing with the
liquor question, which has accom-
plished so much in the way of stop
ping drunkenness and alleviatine
poverty in that land. The views
which accompanied his lecture were
simply superb. They showed -th'
grandeur of the Norwegian scener!
and the simple life of the Norwegian
peasant. They portrayed the prett!