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CHAUTAUQUA
, a See also:village on the See also:west See also:shore of Chautauqua See also:Lake in the See also:town of Chautauqua, Chautauqua See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A
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Pop. of the town (1900), 3590; (1905) .3505; (1910) 3515; of the village (1908) about 750
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The lake is a beautiful See also:body of See also:water over 1300 ft. above See also:sea-level, 20 M. See also:long, and from a few See also:hundred yards to 3 M. in width
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The town of Chautauqua is situated near the See also:north end and is within easy reach by steamboat and electric See also:car connexions with the See also:main See also:railways between the See also:east and the west
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The town is known almost solely as being the permanent See also:home of the Chautauqua Institution, a See also:system of popular See also:education founded in 1874 by See also:Lewis See also:Miller (1829—1899) of See also:Akron, See also:Ohio, and See also:Bishop See also: The See also:scope of the See also:plan rapidly broadened, and in 1879 a See also:regular See also:group of See also:schools with graded courses of study was established . At about the same See also:time, also, the Chautauqua See also:Literary and Scientific Circle, providing a continuous home-See also:reading system, was founded . The See also:season lasts during See also:June, See also:July and See also:August . In 1907 some 325 lectures, concerts, readings and entertainments were presented by a group of over 190 lecturers, readers and musicians, while at the same time 200 courses in the summer schools were offered by a See also:faculty of instructors See also:drawn from the leading colleges and normal schools of the See also:country . The Chautauqua movement has had an immense See also:influence on education in the See also:United States, an influence which is especially marked in three directions: (I) in the See also:establishment of about 300 See also:local assemblies or " Chautauquas " in the United States patterned after the See also:mother Chautauqua; (2) in the promotion of the See also:idea of summer education, which has been followed by the See also:founding of summer schools or sessions at a large number of See also:American See also:universities, and of various See also:special summer schools, such as the See also:Catholic Summer School of See also:America, with head-quarters at Cliff Haven, See also:Clinton county, New York, and the Jewish Chautauqua Society, with headquarters at See also:Buffalo, N.Y.; and (3) in the establishment of numerous See also:correspondence schools patterned in a See also:general way after the system provided by the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle . See John Heyl Vincent, The Chautauqua Movement (See also:Boston, 1886), and See also:Frank C . See also:Bray, A Reading See also:Journey through Chautauqua (See also:Chicago, 1905) . |
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