and his hope that the great Circle may continually augment in numbers. For him it has been almost the only connecting link with the world of literature, art, and science, especially during the hard work of the last three years spent in building up a new business at the cost of an average of fifteen hours a day in harness. The definite plan of reading laid down has been a constant guide for the employment of spare moments none too numerous - which would otherwise have been spent in aimless reading or in other ways which would have left no lasting trace of the way in which they had been employed. Feeling that his is a typical case of the way in which many toilers are helped in their efforts for self-improvement, he wishes every success to the C. L. S. C. New Berlin, Ohio. INSPIRATION. When Bishop Vincent held Vesper Services, he spoke of a case of a young man who had received his inspiration to attend college from the C. L. S. C. I felt like speaking out and saying "Here's another." I always intended to take a professional course, but was putting off study until I should enter school. It was the C. L. S. C. that induced me to take a preliminary college course. I graduated from the C. L. S. C. in 1891, and in 1892 came here to enter on my junior year. Evanston, Illinois. Chautauqua has been my inspiration. I especially appreciate its privileges, so far removed from civilization, and am of course all the more enthusiastic and loyal, having spent the most charming and profitable summer of my life at the Assembly, Chautauqua Lake, last season. South McAlester, Indian Territory. We are taking up the "Travel Club" particularly, and we take turns buying books upon the subjects. It would therefore be a great accommodation if you would advise us what city is to be studied next. Do not care particularly for cheap books; rather, the best on the subject. Galesburg, Illinois. One of our members, Mrs. C. G. Hobart, removed to Despatch this fall. Before she went away she said to me, "Next to my church, I shall miss the Chautauqua circle." I replied, "Why don't you organize one? Look about you and report to me and I will come and help you." This she did, and later I had the pleasure of presenting Chautauqua to a small company, and the result has been the formation of a circle. Canandaigua, New York. TEACHING IN THE TERRITORIES. Indian school of the Navajo Reservation. But we are interested in our work and meet twice a week. Our nearest white neighbors are thirty miles away, and we get mail three times a week, carried by an Indian on horseback. Tohatchi, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. SURMOUNTING DIFFICULTIES. Enclosed please find one dollar-fourth payment. Just a few words. The writer is a bartender wishing to improve himself and get something which would be somewhat better, and who knows your course will be a benefit to him. Although I will not be able to spend the time I would like, my working hours being from 4:00 A. M. to 6:30 P. M., I know it will be better to spend these few moments in trying to educate myself. Trenton, N. J. Out of a working girl's busy life, Chautauqua has been indeed an inspiration. I have found many new paths to follow in coming years, and am very grateful to those who originated this system of education. New York. Learned to write and Had scarcely any schooling. figure" by clerking in a store. tory and literature got from reading in the four years is a source of immense satisfaction to me. Parry Sound, Ontario. ANTIDOTE FOR OLD AGE. I have taken THE CHAUTAUQUAN ever since it started and now have every number. I have twenty volumes of it bound. Myself and wife are members of the C. L. S. C. Pioneer Class of 1882, and I am a graduate of the Chautauqua School of Theology. I have no idea of doing without it now after having taken it so long. Little Silver, New Jersey. I have now completed the four years' course. I am fifty-seven years old, do the cooking, sewing, and housework for five in family, raising two small motherless children. So you see my task has not been very light. Our class this year has been very interesting, and since our closing exercises we have met one day in each week to discuss one of the books of the past year's course and we all feel greatly benefited by this extra work. We expect to keep up this work until the class meets to organize for the next year's work. San Diego, California. I am sixty-four years old; belong to the Class of '95. Have each year promptly returned the memoranda and white seal papers filled out. How much I The course last year was a great help to me in my have enjoyed the course could not be overestimated. I school work. Cheyenne School, Darlington, Oklahoma. Enclosed find fifty cents (stamps) for which send me was tottering under a great shadow, and the reading 1. THE CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE. Four years' reading designed to bring the "College Outlook" into the home. (Four books each year, and a monthly magazine.) 2. SEVENTY-FIVE SPECIALIZED COURSES. For continued reading and study. (Suggested books, study pamphlets, memoranda.) 3. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL (LIMITED). In rudimentary branches for adults. CHAUTAUQUA: AN INSTITUTION FOR POPULAR EDUCATION. FOUNDED BY LEWIS MILLER AND JOHN H. VINCENT. DIVISION OF HOME READING. (Nine months of the year.) EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL. Melvil Dewey, State Library, Albany, New York. Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago. Pres. John Henry Barrows, Oberlin College. Pres. B. P. Raymond, Wesleyan University. Pres. G. Stanley Hall, Clark University. 1. Lecture Courses on University Extension Model. 2. Popular Lectures and Addresses. Program of concerts, dramatic recitals, stereopticon and other entertainments, 3. More than 300 lectures and entertainments included in a season's program. Staff of 75 to 80 instructors selected from the faculties of 30 to 50 different educational institutions. Chancellor, Counselors, and Educational Council serve without remuneration. WHAT EDUCATORS HAVE SAID OF CHAUTAUQUA. Professor Albert S. Cook, of Yale (in The best sense for popular instruction. To direct Forum): the reading for a period of years for so many thousands is to affect not only their present culture, but to increase their intellectual activity for the period of their natural lives, and thus, among other things, greatly to add to the range of their enjoyment. It appears to me that a system which can create As nearly as I can formulate it, the Chautauqua Idea is something like this: A fraternal, enthusiastic, methodical, and sustained attempt to elevate, enrich and inspire the individual life in its entirety, by an appeal to the curiosity, hopefulness, and ambition of those who would otherwise be debarred such excellent results merits the most cordial from the greatest opportunities of culture and spiritual advancement. To this end, all uplifting and stimulating forces, whether secular or religious, are made to conspire in their impact upon the person whose weal is sought. Can we wonder that Chautauqua is a sacred and blessed name to multitudes of Americans? Ex-President Merrill E. Gates, of Amherst: The true significance of the Chautauqua movement seems to me not to lie chiefly in the great summer gatherings, in the crowded lectures, the enthusiastic conferences, and the inspiring commencement address at Chautauqua itself, nor in the diplomas awarded there. But the Chautauqua circles throughout the land mean useful, wiselydirected home reading and intelligent general conversation in the home circle wherever In praise from all lovers of men. The late Professor Herbert B. Adams, of Johns Hopkins University: Religion in its spiritual, ethical sense is the very heart of Chautauqua. In these days of growing secularization and materialism, Chautauqua is a good object-lesson in what might be called a religious survival or revival in concrete, wholesome, visible ways. Chautauqua, like Judaism in its best estate, is an institution for the promotion of the higher life, social and intellectual. The Chautauqua Idea, comprehensively stated, is religion realized in life and culture in practical, not merely in theoretical ways or barren creeds. Chautauqua cultivates faith and works. Edward Everett Hale (in The Century): What they call the Chautauqua Idea is the notion that grown men and women have leisure and desire to read thoughtful books with some system; that education is not finished when a boy leaves school. In coming to this place, on Monday, I made a traveler's acquaintance with a gentleman who had never visited Chautauqua, but he said he was interested in the Assembly because he was a member of the Chautauqua Circle. "I am a very unworthy member," he said laughingly; "but, after all, I should never have read Green's 'History of England' if they had not told me to do so." Such an anecdote gives some idea of the probable Principal A. M. Fairbairn, Mansfield College, work of such a plan among thirty thouEngland: sand people. Of our own times The C. L. S. C. movement seems to me there is no sign more encouraging than the most admirable and efficient organiza- the arrangements of men and women for tion for the direction of reading, and in the study. MAINTENANCE AND PROPAGANDA. Chautauqua has sought to maintain a fifty acres to a model summer city of about Christian ideal of education, faith, and social service. Chautauqua persists because people believe in it and recognize the need of what it stands for. Educators and broad-minded men have freely served it, and it has succeeded in building and rebuilding itself from year to year. Chautauqua is not conducted for personal profit. It is not a stock company. It pays no dividends. Only those officers who do active work receive salaries, which are in no case large. The work of Chautauqua is administered under an educational charter from the State of New York. This charter requires any surplus revenues of the Assembly to be devoted wholly to the building up of the Institution. Surplus from the Summer Assembly sessions has been utilized by the trustees for meeting the material necessities of carrying on the growing work at Chautauqua, New York, for the support of the Summer School faculty, and for the maintenance and propaganda of the Home Study Courses. Since 1874 the town of Chautauqua has grown from a tenting ground of about two hundred acres, five hundred cottages, and a score of public buildings for educational purposes. The plant now owned by the Chautauqua institution represents a total value of $356,055.03, belonging to a community administered by trustees. Estimating the average value of each cottage at $1,000, the private investment would represent about $500,000 additional. No educational institution today expects fees from students to pay for all that it costs the institution to teach them. Chautauqua's support comes from (a) tuition home reading course fees, and gate fees during the summer sessions; (b) endowment property interests at Chautauqua, New York, and an educational fund (at this date only $50,000). Adequate endowment of a teaching force, a Traveling Faculty of Chautauqua Lecturers, who would periodically visit local circles to give personal inspiration and guidance, would enable Chautauqua to do what she is pecuharly fitted for and what was never more needed among the people than in the present day and age. With that diviner music of the soul, Fast grew the temple, with a grace unknown, strong, Touched with a strength and harmony divine. If Love sat playing to us all day long! Chautauqua Expansion Purposes and Scope of the Plans and Publications of the Chautauqua Institution CHAUTAUQUA has become a perma- tion, Domestic Science, and Practical Arts ம் nent factor in education in the have their places. its adaptability to the needs of the mass of people at any given time. The history of the movements that have received an impetus from Chautauqua since the beginning, twenty-eight years ago, proves the statement. In its field it may do what the times require. Its development from a Chautauqua Assembly merely a short summer gathering to the present Chautauqua Institution, devoted to popular education all the year round, is a natural evolution, and a new charter obtained from the New York State Legislature recognizes the development. This charter authorizes educational activity commensurate with the field. Under the new law the name is changed from Chautauqua Assembly to Chautauqua Institution, and it is permitted to enter upon lines of educational work and social improvement for which it did not before have specific authority. The board of trustees is made self-perpetuating for purposes of endowment and administration. The principal offices of the Chautauqua Institution will be centralized at Chautauqua, New York. The office of the treasurer, W. F. Walworth, will remain permanently in Cleveland. Under the expansion policy now provided for, the summer Assembly is to be more than ever a clearing-house of ideas representing the vital movements of the times, besides bringing the fruits of the broadest scholarship and a college outlook" in the concrete before the people in popular form. The program for 1902 emphasizes, week by week, Social Settlement, Arts and Crafts, Young People's Societies, Municipal Progress, Labor Movements, Modern Industrial Problems, and Public Beauty. In the fifteen summer schools, Library Training, Arts and Crafts, Physical Educa In the third great department of Chautauqua work, the Chautauqua Home Reading Courses, the policy of expansion now adds to the long-established lines of liberal culture special courses in Civic Progress, Arts and Crafts, together with the famous Cornell Courses for Housewives and Junior Naturalist Clubs. During the coming year EnglishRussian topics comprise the regular C. L. S. C. course, while THE CHAUTAUQUAN takes a form characterized as "The Chautauqua Method of Studying Current Events." In this connection it may be noted that Chautauqua circles the country over, originally organized for largely individual purposes, have become more and more centers of social activity. Members have been active in the organization of other literary associations; they have promoted public libraries, conducted lecture courses, and devoted themselves to material improvement of local communities. In all this is disclosed the tendency of the times which makes for better living as well as higher thinking. In a word, Chautauqua has grown to be the university center, a common focusing point for the development of the progressive movements of the age. Chautauqua furnishes the machinery for the dissemination of all worthy ideas and provides a common meeting place where great formative movements may coöperate without losing their distinct individuality. As the summer Assembly now supports headquarters for various educational, religious, ethical, civic, and social movements, so the general institution is rapidly growing to be the common agency for bringing these powerful influences into individual lives. THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAGAZINE, the Chautauqua Circle books and special reading course pamphlets - all publications of the Chautauqua Institution - which have been |