ess, a sylvan
goddess with leaves in her hair--not vine leaves,
but oak, and tearing open the bars of a cage
wherein had been confined a bird, say an owl,
labeled "Learning." For that is what Chautauqua
has done for the world--it has let learning loose.

From the American _Review of Reviews_, July, 1914:

The president of a large technical school is
quoted as having said that ten per cent. of the
students in the institution over which he presides
owe their presence to Chautauqua influence. A talk
on civic beauty or sanitation by an expert from
the Chautauqua platform often results in bringing
these matters to local attention for the first
time.

Here is an extract from _The World To-day_:

Old-time politics is dead in the States of the
Middle West. The torchlight parade, the gasoline
lamps, and the street orator draw but little
attention. The "Republican Rally" in the
court-house and the "Democratic Barbecue" in the
grove have lost their potency. People turn to the
Chautauquas to be taught politics along with
domestic science, hygiene, and child-welfare.

Mr. John Graham Brooks, lecturer on historical, political, and social
subjects, author of works widely circulated and highly esteemed, has
given courses of lectures at Chautauqua, and has expressed his estimate
in these words:

After close observation of the work at Chautauqua,
and at other points in the country where its
affiliated work goes on, I can say with confidence
that it is among the most enlightening of our
educational agencies in the United States.

Dr. A. V. V. Raymond, while President of Union College in New York
State, gave this testimony:

Chautauqua has its own place in the educational
world, a place as honorable as it is distinctive;
and those of us who are laboring in other fields,
by other methods, have only admiration and praise
for the great work which has made Chautauqua in
the best sense a household word throughout the
land.

Mr. Edward Howard Griggs, who is in greater demand than almost any other
lecturer on literary and historical themes, in his Recognition Day
address, in 1904, on "Culture Through Vocati