The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Religion
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
Henceforth there are no separate and unrelated institutions, which
professors shall control and direct as circumstances allow; but
each is part of one grand institution, watched over and directed by
its Chancellor, and managed through its central office. All this is
effected without prejudice to any interest. The professor becomes
the representative of an institution which will hereafter be known
as the pioneer in the grandest educational movement of the century.
The student, from an isolated class, is brought into relation with
many other departments of study, with a curriculum which may end in a
diploma and degree. All this has been possible only through the work
which Chautauqua has accomplished. Not only has it been possible, but
possible at a merely nominal cost. The little tuition charged has gone
as an inadequate compensation to the faithful work of talented teachers.
Chautauqua has received from these sources no pecuniary benefit. Here
is a question for each student of the Correspondence Schools to ponder:
Do I not owe something to the University in return for the advantages I
have enjoyed, and to aid it in extending them to others? Here, too, is
an anomaly: A University planning the largest educational work, without
a dollar of endowment and with meager provision for necessary expenses.
In addition to the former tuition fee of ten dollars there is required
from all students, before entering, the payment of a matriculation fee
of five dollars. Only those who have paid this fee are enrolled upon
the University books. This explains the statement already made, that
members of the Correspondence classes were, and were not, members of
the University. There is no purpose to disturb the present status of
the schools of French, German and English. Those who entered them under
the previous arrangement are entitled to the benefits promised them.
Should any student in these schools feel disposed to aid the work by the
payment of the matriculation fee, proper acknowledgment will be made. It
will not for the present year be required; but with the expiration of
the year, when the obligation between student and teacher has been met,
the University will assert its right to demand full conformance to its
requirements by all who participate in its privileges. Professors will
no longer be burdened with business details. All fees will be sent to
the central office, and through it students will be introduced to their
professors, and the University will enter upon a future of usefulness
which no forecasting can express.
“INVINCIBLE”—CLASS OF ’85.
BY PHEBE A. HOLDER.
The age is trembling with the steps
Of an advancing God,
Our pulses feel the thrill and beat
With sympathetic chord.
The everlasting doors of Truth
Stand open to our sight,
Along the shining way she leads
We walk in purest light.
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