Chapter C: L. S. C. Work

By Rev. J. H. VINCENT, D.D., SUPERINTENDENT OF INSTRUCTION C. L. S. C.

May the new year work be promptly begun, faithfully prosecuted, satisfactorily completed!

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October 1 is Memorial Day—the day of the beginning of our college year. The bell at Chautauqua will ring at high noon. Listen for its echoes.

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One member has already nearly finished two of the books since the meetings closed at Chautauqua. He read on the train; he read at the station; he read at the hotel; he read during the odd minutes at home. This is a good example.

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The readings for October are: History of Greece,[D] vol. 2, by Prof. T. T. Timayenis, parts 7 and 8; Chautauqua Text-Books—No. 5, Greek History, by Dr. J. H. Vincent; Primer of American Literature, by C. F. Richardson; required readings in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

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Let the members of the Class of ’83 who were not graduated in August, now begin to read up the required books, and be ready for graduation in 1884.

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In the earliest announcement of the course of study for 1883-84, the little Chautauqua Text-Book No. 22, on Biology, was given. Many members suppose that this is the substitute for “Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology,” an altogether different book. The price of Chautauqua Text-Book No. 22 is 10 cents; the price of “Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology” is (in the cheapest edition) 25 cents. If they will return to Phillips & Hunt, 805 Broadway, New York, the Chautauqua Text-Book and 15 cents additional, they will forward the “Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology.”

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Students in the Class of 1887 should have Chautauqua Text-Books Nos. 4 and 5, English and Greek History. They have already been read by the other classes. Price, 10 cents each.

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Members of the C. L. S. C. are earnestly urged to read Chautauqua Text-Book No. 24, Canadian History. This should have been required in the earlier lists.

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All members of the C. L. S. C. should examine carefully the “Popular Education” circular which appears in this number of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, to ascertain if they have the complete list of books for the year.

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By the payment of one dollar, all graduates of the C. L. S. C. will be entitled to all communications from the central office for four years, the four white crystal seals, and any additional white seals which they may gain. The one dollar does not, of course, pay for special seals.

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The Chautauqua Hand-Book No. 2—known as the “Green Book”—which contains a full account of the C. L. S. C. work, is now ready. Send a two cent stamp to Miss K. F. Kimball, Plainfield, N. J., and you will receive a copy.

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The Class of 1884 should send in their back reports as soon as possible. It is so much better to get all ready in advance, and not wait until the close of the year, when the general office is crowded, the secretaries busy, and mistakes easily possible.

FOOTNOTE:

[D] Students of the new class (1887) to be organized this fall, not having read volume 1 of Timayenis’s History of Greece, will not be required to read volume 2, but, instead of volumes 1 and 2 of Timayenis’s, will read “Brief History of Greece.” Price, paper, 60 cents.

LOCAL CIRCLE NOTICE.

The full accounts of the C. L. S. C. commencement exercises at the summer Assemblies, which we publish this month, take the place of the reports from the local circles. It is only for this month, however. The department will continue to be a regular feature of the magazine. These reports have been of great service to local circles everywhere, and we earnestly request that full and exact accounts of work should be forwarded us by the president or secretary of each local circle. Let any new feature in the program be fully described; give us all the new plans for social work, give everything that will be suggestive and helpful. Several times last year we were asked how to work up a new circle, or to revive a dying one. Where leaders have had experience in building up these circles let them give testimony through the “Local Circle” column. It may help others in similar circumstances. The new and helpful features are what we want for this department. If the members will co-operate, the local circle reports will be very useful.

OUTLINE OF C. L. S. C. STUDIES.

OCTOBER, 1883.

The required readings for October are:

Parts 7 and 8 of the second volume of Timayenis’s “History of Greece” for students having read the first volume, but for students of class 1887 the first ninety-one pages of “Brief History of Greece.”

Chautauqua Text-book, No. 5, “Greek History,” by Dr. J. H. Vincent.

“Primer of American Literature,” by C. F. Richardson.

Readings in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

The division is as follows:

_First Week_ (ending October 8)—1. The first three
chapters of part 7 of Timayenis’s “History of Greece;”
or from page 1 to “Age of Pericles,” page 23, in “Brief
History of Greece.”

2. American Literature, the first two chapters.

3. Readings in American Literature in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

4. Sunday Readings, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN, selection for
October 7.

_Second Week_ (ending October 16)—1. Timayenis’s
“History of Greece,” from chapter iv., part 7,
to chapter ii., part 8, or in “Brief History of
Greece,” from “The Age of Pericles,” page 23, to “The
Civilization,” page 46.

2. American Literature, from page 30 to page 55,
inclusive.

3. Readings in Physical Science in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

4. Sunday Readings, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN, selection for
October 14.

_Third Week_ (ending October 24)—1. “History of Greece”
(Timayenis’s) from chapter ii., page 73, to chapter
vi., page 115, or in “Brief History of Greece,” from
page 46, “The Civilization,” to “Manners and Customs,”
page 71.

2. American Literature, from page 56, section 34, to
page 81.

3. Readings in THE CHAUTAUQUAN on German History and
Political Economy.

4. Sunday Readings, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN, selection for
October 21.

_Fourth Week_ (ending October 31)—1. “History of
Greece.” Finish part eighth, or in “Brief History
of Greece,” from page 71, “Manners and Customs,” to
“Readings in Greek History,” page 91.

2. American Literature, from section 34, page 81, to
end of volume.

3. Readings in Art, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN.

4. Sunday Readings, in THE CHAUTAUQUAN, for October 28.

POPULAR EDUCATION.

CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE.

_President_—Lewis Miller.

_Superintendent of Instruction_—J. H. Vincent, D.D.

_Counselors_—Lyman Abbott, D.D.; J. M. Gibson, D.D.; Bishop H. W. Warren, D.D.; W. C. Wilkinson, D.D.

_Office Secretary_—Miss Kate F. Kimball.

_General Secretary_—A. M. Martin.

1.—AIM.

This new organization aims to promote habits of reading and study in nature, art, science, and in secular and sacred literature, in connection with the routine of daily life (especially among those whose educational advantages have been limited), so as to secure to them the college student’s general outlook upon the world and life, and to develop the habit of close, connected, persistent thinking.

2.—METHODS.

It proposes to encourage individual study in lines and by text-books which shall be indicated; by local circles for mutual help and encouragement in such studies; by summer courses of lectures and “students’ sessions” at Chautauqua, and by written reports and examinations.

3.—COURSE OF STUDY.

The course of study prescribed by the C. L. S. C. shall cover a period of four years.

4.—ARRANGEMENT OF CLASSES.

_Each year’s Course of Study will be considered the “First Year” for new pupils_ whether it be the first, second, third, or fourth of the four years’ course. For example, “the class of 1887,” instead of beginning October, 1883, with the same studies which were pursued in 1882-83 by “the class of 1886,” will fall in with “the class of ’86,” and take for their first year the second year’s course of the ’86 class. The first year for “the class of 1886” will thus in due time become the fourth year for “the class of 1887.”

5.—C. L. S. C. COURSE OF READING, 1883-84