Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-12-04
SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIG SCALE
Lake Champlain Chautauqua
Advocated by Pres. Benton.
Nould Cost about 100000, University
to Guarantee Onc-Half and Bur-
Iington Business Men the
Other Half.


ance Kind was engendered Tuesday at
little dinner in the upstairs dining
room of the Hotel Vermont. Max L..
Powell was host and the members of the
executive committee of the Merchants
association, together with Mayor James
L.. Burke, representing the city, Presi-
Gent Benton and Captain Ira L. Reeves.
representing the university. and repre-
scntatives of the newspapers were highly
lppreciativc guests.
The dinner consisted OF many courses
Of good things handsomely served with
It went a good deal of genial visiting,
and after 1t came a few brief speeches
OF the type which IL Is customary to term
epoch-mak!ng.
When the cigars and coffee stage was
reached, Mr. Powell arose and in the
course of happy Introductory speech,
IN which the mayor, the association. the
university and The newspapers were all
handlsd in a highly Mandatory manner,
'ntimated that President Benton had
something big to impart.
Thus introduced. President Benton
opened upon a subject very near to his
heart, He spoke Of the army school
which is to be held here next summer.
In glowing terms he pictured what this
school would mean to the city. and
especially to the business of the plnce.
lie expressed himself as hardly willing
to say that the estimates of the officers
In charge could he quite fulfilled But
ne confessed that the prospects looked
increasingly bright. lie went on to i'm
press his hearers with the responsibility
which had
come to them to ho so successful that II
would be made permanent.
From the army school President Ben
ton proceeded to the summer school OF
the university Here he spranG the
sensation of the evening. He said that
the bigger opportunity afforded by the
presence of so many young people here
in Vermont would justify bigger plans
on the part of the university. lie was
confident that the time had come to ven
ture something. It had been the custom
he said, for the university to appropriate
SO 500 annually for the benefit of the sum
mer school. lie thought il was a case
OF venture little. accomplish little. His
suggestion was that We should have
bigger. moro impressive, and necessarily
n more expensive summer school.
President Benton thought that though
Chautauquan courses had been roughi'
handled by the paragraph writer's or tn
country, there was something too biz
IN these institutions to he downed, II
declared that neither William Jcnning
Bryan nor the Chautauquans had bee
fairly treated. To do the thing up brown
he was of opinion that We should hav
a Chautauquan by way of grand final
to which the people of the country 70
miles around should come for the uplif
of their natures and the instruction G
their heads.
His plan was to make a bold start, eve
though it might involve spending som
money. to offer something impressive an
trust that the crowds would follow,
To show how the thing might be work
ed out President Benton presented IN
following estimate of what he though
practicable to count on for Univcrsit
of Vermont summer school and LAX
Champlain Chautauqua:
ESTIMATED UNIVERSITY EXPENSE
Advertising ....................... ="
Twenty-one fun professors Cat $40
eaCh) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .......-'''' 90
Fourteen instructors cat 5000 ..... l,+
Six extra instructors cat S5)........ "
Three prominent lecturers Cat 5000. 60
Three specialists kindergarten, etc.
at SOD ......................., LIZ
-Four social service workers cat 5000 St
apparatus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Lon
concerts ...'.'..''..''..'.'''''''' h'
PLAYS .,,.',,,.'...'.'''...''' -"
Lectures OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. so
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ''''''' Sle'H
ESTIMATED INCOME.
Five hundred students cat s25).... .. $l2,5
Room rent and board .,..".",.,. Is
s5,3
one thousand Chautauqua tickets
lat s5l OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES '''''''> o'V
Total estimate OF income. ......... 203
Total estimate of expensc........... 1873
Balance ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
President Benton Impressed upo
his hearers that inasnuch as the pla
was one which would bench. I'll
business OF the city greatly, the hu'
hess men Of burlington ought to hes
part of the risk. lie said his mr.
proposition was that theJ shou
guarantee against loss the 5000
necessary 20 be expended by the un
vorsity, This he said had seemed to
much to ask, so, on second though
he had persua led the trustees
agree that the university should be;
10000 of the risk provided the me
of Burlington could be induced
guarantee like amount.
MI Powell displayed a subscriptlC
paper not as yet been fairly starte
which nevertheless bore four SUI
scriptions of 800 each from indivi
uals. AMI two of $3.50 from corpor
lions. The in lividual subscribe
were Max L. Powell Guy Potter Bel
ton, Elias Lyman and c. T. Smit
The other two subscriptions we
from the Burlington Traction con
pany and from the Hotel Vermont
Captain Reeves made an impromp
speech in which he spoke interesting
~ of the camp to be held here, al
OF the likelihood of keeping it here.
Mayor Burke was called upon
say something about bathing beaC
but first said "A good word for cor
mission form of government. AS
the beach, he was inclined that som
thing of the kind was likely to
opened by indivi luals for priva
profit. He seemed to think this won
lie enough.
w. b, Howe, when called upon
rannrt nno,, tho GpIipps of a IN