By REV. J. H. VINCENT, D.D., SUPERINTENDENT OF INSTRUCTION C. L. S. C.
The Class of ’84 rules the year.
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The readings for November are: “History of Greece,” Timayenis, volume
II, parts 10 and 11, or (for the new Class of 1877) “Brief History of
Greece;” Chautauqua Text-Book No. 5, “Greek History;” Required Readings
in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.
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Memorial Day for November, Special Sunday, November 11. Read Job,
twenty-eighth chapter. One of the finest passages in all literature.
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Talk much about the subject of your reading. You know what you have by
your speech caused others to know.
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Have you ever tried to control conversation at a table in the interest
of some sensible subject? It will be a curious study for you to see
how this mind and that will run away with or from the topic you have
proposed. It will tax your ingenuity to bring the company back to the
original topic. The measures of your success will be the interest you
can awaken in others, the amount of information on the subject which
you can elicit from them, and the amount, also, which you can give them
without seeming to be a lecturer or preacher for the occasion.
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We must insist upon the observance of the Memorial Days. Put up your
list of Memorial Days in plain sight, so that you may not forget them.
Order a copy of the little volume of “Memorial Days” from Phillips &
Hunt, 805 Broadway, New York, or Walden & Stowe, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Price, 10 cents.
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It is proposed that “the C. L. S. C. as a body organize a lecture
bureau, to be entirely or partially sustained by small contributions
from each member, thereby enabling weak circles to obtain one or two
good lectures during the year at reasonable prices.” A proposition to
be considered.
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“Will I be required to read the ‘Preparatory Latin Course in English’
next year? I have studied the same thing in the original very lately.”
Answer: You will be required to read the “Preparatory Latin Course in
English.” You can not have studied, except under such a teacher as Dr.
Wilkinson, the Latin Course in English as we require it under the C. L.
S. C. The book must be read.
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“Does the C. L. S. C. confer a degree? If so, what is it?” Answer:
The C. L. S. C. is not a university or college. It has no charter,
consequently it has no power to confer degrees. There is a university
charter in the hands of the Chautauqua management—a university to be.
In this university there will be non-resident courses of study, with a
rigid annual examination, to be followed by degrees and diplomas. There
may sometime in the future be a permanent Chautauqua University at
Chautauqua. Further than this I can say nothing now. It is to be hoped
the Chautauqua University will never confer honorary degrees.
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Correspond with some one on the studies of the C. L. S. C. Make your
letter a means of self-improvement. Congratulate yourself if your
friend, in reply, shows where you made two or three mistakes in your
letter.
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Will you find out the names of the latest graduating class of the high
school in your town, and send them to me? I may interest them in the C.
L. S. C. course of study, by sending a “Popular Education Circular.”
Address Drawer 75, New Haven, Conn.
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Are you willing wisely to distribute from ten to a hundred copies of
the “Popular Education Circular,” and would you scatter copies of the
tiny C. L. S. C. advertisement, if they were sent you?
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The most indefatigable worker in the C. L. S. C., next to our worthy
secretary, Miss Kimball, is the secretary of the new class—the Class of
1887—Mr. Kingsley A. Burnell, who is making a remarkable record as he
travels to and fro in the far West, visiting editors of papers, offices
of railroad superintendents, cabins of employes, and on the cars,
urging persons to adopt this new plan of self-culture.