Word: chautauqua
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With richly caparisoned pageantry, with fine democratic speechmaking, with orchestras, choirs, choruses, soloists, with lecturers, clergymen, suffragettes, scientists, with the President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., and the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, the annual program of Chautauqua Institution was launched upon the sylvan shores of Lake Chautauqua, N. Y. It was the 50th anniversary of the coming together of a little band of people who studied the Bible together in a Summer camp in 1874. They had been invited by Dr. John H. Vincent, preacher, later bishop, and his friend Lewis Miller, mowing-machine...
From London, went Albert Mansbridge, Chairman of the World Association for Adult Education, to Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., to prepare for his organization's part in the Chautauqua jubilee symposium, to be held next week. Said he: "Adult education has become a force in many countries...
Across the Street. Apparently the rural drama is out to obliterate sex. That is the impression one gains from this new play of the small town. Author Purdy, won with his comedy-drama the prize of $500 offered by the Chautauqua circuit for the best play without sex; he earned every nickel of it. He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream...
...Akron, founded there a school for Sunday school teachers. Gradually their course of instruction was broadened to include all respectable culture. Others than school teachers came to fill the tents and cottages. And before the 19th Century ended, the spot became one of the wonders of America. It was Chautauqua...
...pleasures of Chautauqua include baseball, swimming, croquet, evangelistic meetings, minstrel shows, lectures on science, orations by W. J. Bryan and other candidates, symphony orchestras, glorious sunsets, wholesome food, culture...