The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Religion
The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
=Camden, N. J.=, has also recently formed the “Bradway Circle” of
thirty-two members. This circle has a novel way of managing its session,
which may furnish a suggestion to some one wanting a new idea. After
their general exercises and transaction of business they separate into
two classes for the study of some subject selected at the previous
meeting by the members of the class. After devoting about half an hour
to the separate classes, they again unite into one general class for the
discussion of some topic.
We are very glad to welcome into our midst two new circles from the
South, one at =Salem, N. C.=, of thirty-eight members, and another at
=Atlanta, Ga.= At the January meeting of the Salem circle the exercises
were on “Germany,” and as most of the members understand the language
of that country, part of the exercises were in German. A very pleasant
feature of their program was an account of the customs, traits and people
of the country as they appeared to one of the members who had lately
traveled through that land.
Our space forbids our giving long accounts of the new circles in the
West. In =Illinois= there is a new class of thirteen at =Janesville=,
and another at =Jacksonville=, a place famous among its neighbors as
“the Athens of the West.” It contains no less than five excellent
institutions of learning, and yet they find a place for the C. L. S.
C. At =Litchfield, Mich.=, is another new circle, and from the college
town of =Appleton, Wis.=, the president writes: “It was considered
impracticable at first, in view of college and other literary societies
in the town, to start a C. L. S. C. These objections soon vanished. We
have a most enthusiastic circle of thirty-eight members, including two
college professors and wives, a physician, a clergyman and wife, and
several graduates of this and other colleges.” =Iowa= reports three
new circles. From =Fairchild= the secretary writes: “We have a most
enthusiastic circle of twenty-five members. At our opening in October we
thought one meeting a month sufficient, but as we warmed up we multiplied
them by two, and last week we doubled them again, so that now we meet
each week. You see this interest compounds more rapidly than that on most
other investments.” If one still imagines that the C. L. S. C. is in any
sense denominational in its tendency, let him read the experience of one
of the members of the new class at =Grundy Center, Ia.=: “I had a little
prejudice once against the course, as I thought that it would naturally
run into Methodist channels; but I have outgrown that. As a matter of
fact, of our fifteen enrolled members eight are Presbyterians and four
Congregationalists; but as members of the C. L. S. C. we are entirely
unconscious that we belong to any denomination.” At =Belle Plaine,
Ia.=, there is a circle of fifteen ladies; at =Clarksville, Mo.=, one
numbering fourteen. Kansas reports two new circles, one at =Wyandotte=,
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