making the Arts and Crafts Village, in later years to
become the Arts and Crafts Building. The Grange Building on Simpson
Avenue was erected and presented as headquarters for that order by Mr.
Cyrus W. Jones of Jamestown. This year, 1903, Dean Percy H. Boynton of
the University of Chicago was made Secretary of Instruction, and placed
in full charge of the Summer Schools, which by this time had grown to
more than two thousand students. A few years later he received the title
of Principal and gave to the summer schools his unremitting attention
until 1917. To Dean Boynton's careful choice of instructors and
watchfulness over details of management during those years the growth
and success of the schools is largely due.

The Liquor Problem was the subject of the Conference on August 3-8,
1903. I find on the list of speakers and their subjects eight names to
which might be added five times as many who participated in the
discussions. Commander Frederick Booth-Tucker and his wife Emma
Booth-Tucker, told of "The Salvation Army and the Liquor Problem." Mr.
Raymond Robins, an eminent social worker of Chicago, spoke on "The
Saloon and the World of Graft, Vagrancy, and Municipal Correction,"
although it may have been "municipal corruption," for I think he spoke
on both subjects. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens told of the work of the W.
C. T. U.; Prof. I. P. Bishop showed "The Physiological Effects of
Alcohol," Prof. Frederick Starr, the anthropologist, gave an interesting
account of "Stimulants among Primitive Peoples." Other speakers were
Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie, Mr. Frederick H. Wines, and Mrs. John G. Woolley.

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Another Conference was held August 10th to 15th on "The Mob," and
attracted the deepest interest. President William G. Frost of Berea
College, Kentucky, told of "The Mountain Feuds"; Mr. John Temple Graves
spoke in defense of lynching, and declared that the only solution of the
negro problem in the south would be the enforced deportation of the
negro back to Africa; but other Southerners present did not agree with
him. Dean Richmond Babbitt gave "A Study of the Lynch Law"; Mr. D. M.
Parry spoke on "The Mob Spirit in Organized Labor"; Mr. Thomas Kidd on
"The Labor Unions and the Mob Spirit." Chief Justice Charles B. Lore of
Delaware and Judge John Woodward gave "The Legal Aspects of the Mob
Spirit." No discussion at Chautauqua awakened such feeling, although it
was carried on with pe