The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
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The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
There is a circle of over forty persons at Butte City, Montana. The
secretary writes: “The interest is good, in fact beyond our expectation.
The C. L. S. C. is the right organization for us western people who are
all busy and can only take spare moments for study. We have developed
no new plan of instruction. We meet every week. An instructor in each
important branch prepares at a week’s notice a ‘quiz,’ which is given
to the class for about one half hour. Essays are read upon the most
important topics connected with the lessons. Readings from choice
literature, music, etc., embraces the remainder of our enjoyable
evenings.”
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We have received memorials of the death of two members of the C. L. S.
C. One from Brooklyn, as a minute adopted at the local circle: “The New
York Arc C. L. S. C. learn with sorrow of the death of one of its most
esteemed members. Mrs. Anna C. Fredericks died on Sunday, December 30,
1883. She was one of those who were enrolled as members of the circle
at its organization, for she was already a Chautauquan student, and had
then so nearly completed the prescribed studies that she graduated last
summer. Such was her enthusiastic love of our methods of study, and
attachment to this circle, that the winning of her degree did not detach
her from this association, and she continued, with apparently increased
zeal, to attend these meetings until prevented by her late short, though
fatal, illness. But this was only one manifestation of a life which was
characterized with earnest religious devotion and a loving spirit which
endeared her to all who were privileged to be near to her, or in any way
subject to her influence. _Resolved_, That the secretary be requested to
enter the foregoing minute in the records of the circle, and to present
copies to Mr. Fredericks and to the secretary at Plainfield.”
Another comes from Felicity, Ohio: “Our ‘Pleiades’ circle mourns the
loss of Miss Flora Carver, of the class of 1884. She was one of our
enthusiastic members, ever trying to keep the spirit of our mottoes. When
she became too weak to keep up the Course of Reading, she still read THE
CHAUTAUQUAN, and in July, with kindling eye and glowing cheek she spoke
of the comfort a perusal of Dr. Townsend’s lecture on the “Employments of
Heaven” had given her. Hers was a Christian life, and her last days were
spent in patient endurance of severe suffering, and joyful contemplation
of a happy future.”
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON FIRST PART OF PREPARATORY LATIN
COURSE IN ENGLISH—FROM COMMENCEMENT OF BOOK TO PAGE 167.
By A. M. MARTIN, GENERAL SECRETARY C. L. S. C.
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