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Chautauqua Clubs

The Woman's Club. Mrs. B. T. Vincent, Greeley, Colorado, president. July 18-Aug. 23. A daily session for the presentation of papers and discussions on (1) The Home, (2) Education, (3) Social Ethics, (4) Philanthropy. The specific topics for 1902 are as follows:

1. A Reunion-Welcome to new Chautauquans. 2. Clubs as Related to Home and Church Life. 3. Farmers' Wives Reading Union. 4. The Environment of Children from Birth to the Age of Sixteen. 5. Reading in the Home. 6. Dwarfed Individuality. 7. Standards of Appreciation. 8. Simplicity in Household Decoration. 9. Social Conditions of Domestic Service. 10. The Work and Problems of the Consumers' League. 11. The Work of Women's Clubs in Placing Pictures. 12. Bad Manners Among Cultivated People. 13. Bible Study in Clubs. 14. Sunshine Society. 15. Women's and Young Women's Christian Associations. 16. Christian vs. Social Settlements. 17. Parliamentary Drill. 18. Tendency of American Art. 19. The Madonna in Art. 20. Music in its Relation to Literature and Art. 21. Present and Past Methods Employed to Develop a Love of Music in the Schools. 22. The Most Helpful Pictures in Your Home, and Why? 23. Kindergartens, Manual Training, Cooking and Sewing in Public Schools.

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The Outlook. Young Women's Club. July 5Aug. 28. This organization will hold its tenth annual series of sessions under the leadership of Miss Mary Merington, 181 Lenox Ave., New York. The plan will include the consideration of a wide range of topics interesting and important to young women. young women's glee club will be organized from the members of The Outlook. The club will also be a factor in the social life of Chautauqua, giving afternoon teas, evening receptions and conducting other functions. All young women who have passed the age of fifteen will be welcomed as members.

nature study, etc. 24. Civic Improvement. 25. Social Life in Public

Schools. 26. The Industrial Problem as it Affects Women and
Children. 27. Books of Real Value Read During the Past
Year-a Symposium. 28. Reports from Federations.

Missionary Topics.

1. Prayer for the Holy Spirit in Mission Work. 2. Educational Work-Teaching All Nations. 3 Illustrated Views of Mission Lands and Workers 4. The Gospel-Good Tidings for All People. 5. How can Missionary Work Promote Spirituality? 6 What have Missionary Women to Say? 7 What have Missionary Men to Say? Thanksgiving for the Triumphs of the Gospel.

Temperance Topics. Led by Mrs. L. M. D. Fry. July 14-17.

1. The Gospel of Pictures. 2. Our Soldier Boys in Camp and Home. 3. Temperance Truths Set to Music. 4. Twentieth Century Feudalism.

Girls' Club. July 7-Aug. 16. Organization for girls between the ages of six and sixteen years. Under the direction of Miss Abigail Freeman, 530 E. 47th St., Chicago. Providing, in addition to the general club work, regular class instruction in manual training, sketching, clay modeling, basket weaving, A handsome new club building, costing more than $5000, is being erected and will be open for the first time at the organization of the club. The building is commodious, contains a large hall, special rooms for different departments, spacious verandas, lockers and bathrooms. The club provides a systematic guiding for the vacation activities of the growing girl. The organization will take place Saturday, July 5. The general club work will include kitchen gardening, games, songs, cooking and practical work, gymnasium, sewing and bathing including the care of the children in the water. Special classes in Arts and Crafts will be provided; fee $10.00, or $5.00 for club members. The regular fee for general club membership is $1.00 per week or $5.00 for the season, in advance. Send for Special Club Circular,

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Its purpose is to provide for the Chautauqua boy of from eight to sixteen a Junior Chautauqua Assembly, using every advantage of platform, grounds and lake, for moral, mental and physical growth, and to make the long summer vacation a period of upbuilding.

A handsome Boys' Club building, erected in 1899, with its well-furnished gymnasium, reading room, manual-training equipment and natural-science department, offers grand opportunity for the mental, moral and physical welfare of the Chautauqua boy. This building is open at all hours during the day, and includes locker room and bathing quarters in its equipment. The customary camp will be established at Whiteside under the direction of Camp-Master Jones, and abundant opportunity will be given for genuine camp life, rowing, swimming and fishing.

Regular club work occupies two or three hours daily for six weeks. Established in the new headquarters, every effort will be made to make 1902 a banner year in the history of the club, and especial importance will be placed upon manual training, natural-science museum collection and body-building gymnastic drill. Courses have been arranged for special work in manual training, nature study, basket weaving and clay modeling. Fee for the course $10.00, or $5.00 to club members. All Chautauqua boys between the ages of eight and sixteen are eligible to membership and from a special advanced section (boys from fourteen to eighteen) a second Chautauqua base ball team will be formed and games arranged with neighboring teams. Athletic supplies, camp articles, club costumes, etc., can be purchased at Chautauqua. Send for Special Club Circular.

Elementary Vacation School. Chautauqua is an ideal place for so organizing the play of children as to make it contribute to their intellectual growth. The Vacation School undertakes to do this for the children of six, seven and eight years of age, thus filling in the gap between the kindergarten age and the time when children can mingle to advantage with the older groups of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs.

Work for six and seven-year-old children will be a study of farm life and occupations. They will lay out a farm, with fields, orchards and pasture lands; and plant fields. Animals for stocking the farm will be used build houses, make fences, etc., as a motive for instruction in clay modeling. Reading, writing, number, art and nature study will grow out of farm work.

Eight-year-old children will study primitive life. They will work out anew the race inventions and discoveries of food, shelter, clothing, weapons and tools, domestication of animals, early methods of agriculture, simple forms of government, etc.

Art work, nature study, reading and number connected with their work. All work out-of-doors when weather permits.

School is under the charge of Miss Laura L. Runyon, of the University of Chicago, Instructor in Dr. John Dewey's School, and Miss Florence Kelley, Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, O. Tuition: $5.00 for the season of six weeks; $3.00 for three weeks.

Kindergarten: (July 7-Aug. 16). The Kindergarten will be open every school morning from nine until twelve o'clock. The children will be in charge of trained kindergartners, under the direction of Miss Frances E. Newton of the Chicago Kindergarten Institute. The program of the Kindergarten will be the development of the children's interests in typical experiences of country life, such as village activities, life in and upon lake and stream, woods and farm.

Children may be entered in the order of application and under the following conditions:

1. No child will be admitted who expects to be present less than two weeks.

2. Children from three to seven years of age will be admitted. 3. Any child absent for two consecutive days without excuse will be dropped, and the place filled from the list of waiting applicants.

4. A fee of $1.00 per week (or $5.00 for the season) will be charged for each child.

5. The number of places is necessarily limited and the department cannot undertake to receive children in excess of such limit. Early application should therefore be made to the registrar, Miss Margaret Lee, 120 Mills St., Springfield Mass. Kindergarten Office, in Kellogg Hall, open, Saturday, July 5,

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Chautauqua National Council of Superintendents and Principals. Officers for 1902: President, Thomas Bailey Lovell, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Vice-Presidents, C. B. Boyer, Atlantic City, N. J., Ada Van Stone Harris, Rochester, N. Y., D. D. Mayne, Janesville, Wis.; Secretary and Treasurer, P. E. Marshall, Brocton, N. Y.; Executive Committee, H. H. Howe, Brooklyn, N. Y., E. E. Miller, Bradford, Pa., Eliza A. Kent, Fargo, N. D., H. M. Morton, Sandusky, Ohio, W. B. Dove, Reedville, N. C.

The general topic for study and discussion will be : 1. The course of study for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Particular topics will be 2. Arithmetic and English Language in these grades. 3. Music. 4. Manual Training. 5. The principles of society and home life in the school. 6. A discussion of Physiological Physchology.

The custom of teachers and others present giving questions and topics to the Executive Committee for

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discussion will be continued and as many of these topics will be offered for discussion as the time will permit. Distinguished educators will be invited to give short addresses.

The first session will be held Thursday, July 10, at I p. m., in Higgins Hall, or in the grove near it. All educators at Chautauqua at any time are invited to be present. The sessions usually continue four weeks.

The Ministerial Club. The Ministerial Club, which in some form has always been a part of Chautauqua work, will be organized early in the season and meet frequently for the discussion of important questions.

Chautauqua Young People's Christian Association. This Association, formed Aug. 2, 1900, by the union of all the young people's societies then existing at Chautauqua, is an organization designed to enlist the interest and coöperation of young people of all denominations who may be present at Chautauqua during the season. Weekly prayer meetings are held Wednesday evening in the Chapel.

For all interested in special lines of religious work there will be a "Bible Conference Week" commencing with a Rally, Sunday afternoon, July 20, and continuing the following five days. The program will announce Devotional Meetings, Outdoor Rallies, Conferences, Bible Readings, Platform Addresses, Illustrated Lectures. Opportunities will be afforded for meeting eminent leaders and consecrated workers. Among those who will participate are Mr. John Willis Baer, Dr. J. F. Berry, Dr. C. N. Sims, Mr. Robert Speer, Rev. W. H. Geistweit, Dr. Lincoln Hulley, Dr. J. M. Thoburn, Jr., and others.

The success of this undertaking will greatly depend upon the earnest coöperation of all young people. Chautauqua affords splendid facilities for recreation and every effort will be put forth to make this season an attractive one to young people.

Association headquarters, reading and recreation room will be found on the east side of the Amphitheater. All young people are requested to register there. For further information, address Chautauqua Offices, Chautauqua, N. Y.

Chautauqua Chorus. This famous choir will be under the direction of Mr. Alfred Hallam of New York City. Mr. Hallam has for many years conducted

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large choral societies in the east. He will be present throughout the season and conduct the public concerts. The members of the chorus will have a rare opportunity to sing under the guidance of a master hand. The choir will meet twice daily for practice in the Amphitheater, and will participate in two public concerts each week. All good readers of music will be admitted to the choir, free of charge, as heretofore, but will be expected to provide themselves with a copy of the new Chautauqua chorus book which will be used during the season. The price will not exceed fifty cents.

Children's Chorus. Mr. Hallam will organize and conduct throughout the season a children's chorus, open to all children at Chautauqua. He has devoted much of his life to this branch of music and work with children. The small fee of fifty cents will be charged for enrollment, which will include price of music. The children will give one of the regular concerts in the Amphitheater toward the end of the season. Membership free to members of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs.

Male Glee Club. A musical club will be organized among the young men of Chautauqua for the purpose of singing college songs and rendering other appropriate music. As it becomes more proficient, the club will be used at the various services and in connection with the regular concerts. Mr. Hallam, assisted by Mr. H. B. Vincent, will conduct the Glee Club. A fee of a dollar will be charged; this will include price of music.

The Chautauqua Press Club. Frank Chapin Bray, editor The Chautauquan Magazine, president. The Chautauqua Press Club is an organization of all literary workers at Chautauqua and meets from time to time during the Assembly. The principal club events of the season are receptions and "Authors' Nights." The programs given at the latter are of especial interest, well-known literary persons who visit Chautauqua taking part. The club was formed for the purpose of establishing fellowship among literary workers in all fields, who are at Chautauqua, and as such has proven most successful. There are no dues or initiation fees and all writers who visit Chautauqua are invited to join at the office of The Assembly Herald in the Administration Building Annex.

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Lying between wooded hills and fruitful fields, and extending half across the State at its narrow, "sunset end," Chautauqua Lake is one of the most charming links in that chain of miniature inland seas, whose picturesque beauty has made the Chautauqua region well-nigh as famous as the mother-country has been rendered by the "Lake Region" of England, the lochs of Scotland and the lakes of Killarney.

Many of the visitors to Chautauqua are doubtless unaware of the fact that Chautauqua Lake was not remotely connected with the war of the Revolution. In 1782, a party of 3co British soldiers and 500 Indians from Canada spent the summer months of that year around the lake, engaged in the construction of canoes,

and in other preparations for an attack on Fort Pitt or Fort Duquesne, now the site of the city of Pittsburg.

A notable reminiscence of the lake may also be found in the fact that, in the early days, the "outlet" with the Allegheny River was used by the Jesuit missionaries who were sent among the Indian tribes along the upper lakes, as the principal highway to New Orleans.

That the lake was also a favorite hunting and fishing ground of the Indians, is plainly evinced by the warriors' mounds and monumental tumuli which have remained on its shores until a recent date.

The first steamboat on the lake was placed there in 1828, and this craft was the forerunner of the present fleet of steamers which grace the waters of Chautauqua.

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Chautauqua

DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION

JOHN H. VINCENT, CHANCELLOR.

GEORGE E. VINCENT, PRINCIPAL.

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