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one to follow.THE CUAUTAUQVA MOVEMENT.No educational movement in recent years lms reached the wide celebrityand success that the Chautauqua movement has attained. Begun on a email scale, with no intention of passing beyond the local limits of a small circle, its influence has pervaded the intellectual life of the world. The need of this work was strongly impressed upon Dr. Vincent, and with Lewis Milter of Akron, Ohio, aa joint originator, the plan was made public August, 1878. Dr. Vincent believed thoroughly in its power to uplift and enrich multitudes of men and women, and ho presented it in an address which powerfully moved and astonished his audience. His plan seemed so clear and practical as he explained it, that people, who for years had accepted with dull resignation the narrow limits of their intellectual lives, were startled into recognising that it bad been their own inaction that had been binding them, and that after all the world of knowledge and thoughtmight be for th.-m.This address, in its leveling effect, is spoken of as amusing, as well as pathetic. Young and old, college-bred and untrained, rich and poor, busy and idle, joined tho circle with one accord, aeeuiing to comprehend tluit the pursuit of knowledge and culture is independent of a'l conditions. Seventeen year8 successful work have proven that whatever defects were embodied in this system, time and effort can remedy; and it is already well proven that for those who are too old, too poor, or too hu*y to go to school, mature life and old age can be turned into youth ; shop, railway car, kitchen or forest, can be turned into a school, and life made a richer and more beautiful thing.A JAIL FOR WOMEN NEEDED.ui iup euiand one 1 The young down upon ing to eleej of lifo's de tion lasted hour. Mr.from Hi. Pi about a yei Oregon, time ago h cident poli lowed It to dream tha happen an the point c did not wa strong, h«ihim in his strong he;iReliable lions of t! wheat yleli than ex pec is very larj c luntiee w vests. N* wheat wag roads lead going to be y*-ar. as i earlier in \WhitWAThere is urgent need iu this city for ai n Tho rtnlwTho loc thorough.Threw C and Liters Academy. Depart in ei greatly on strengthen outlook ir ev»*r befonFall tennoonccme:addressPangl
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The Dalles daily chronicle
The Dalles, Oregon, US
Mon, Aug 12, 1895
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