Chautauqua was a traveling tent show that brought
culture and live entertainment to rural American
communities. They brought education and entertainment
to small Midwestern towns by presenting great
oratory, music and drama under a big circus tent.
1916 Flyer - Reviews of a
Chautauqua
Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of the State University of Iowa
delivered his lecture "The Worth of a
Child" to the teachers of this county at the
Institute held here last week. I invited many of the
prominent people of this place to attend the lecture
and all pronounced it to be the greatest lecture ever
given in this city. The lecture is clothed in most
beautiful language, scientific, intensely
interesting, a message of life and should be heard by
everyone,
W.L. Peck
Superintendent of Schools,
Allamakee County, Iowa
Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of our State University in his
three lectures gave us a treat which would cost $1.50
to $2.00 in any Chautauqua program. His first
lecture, "The Worth of a Child" was one of
the finest the writer has ever heard. The second
lecture was equally fine on "Helping Nature to
Help Children" worth a dollar of any parent's
money in the way it showed how the parent might help
the child, from three or four years on, to develop
fully. The third, "Just Entering Manhood and
Womanhood," was even more in order and more
excellent in appropriateness because of the duties
the homes of to-day have turned over to the High
School.
Each lecture, while connected with the preceding or
succeeding one, was a gem in itself.
Waukon Standard
Advertisement of Chautauqua, unknown date
19--
Father C. Arthur Macleod's lecture Wednesday evening,
the third of the The Cadet Band's entertainment
course, was a rare intellectual treat, and despite
the inclement weather a splendid audience greeted the
reverend gentleman. It was the pleasure of the writer
to meet personally and introduce the speaker, and we
have never met a more entertaining conversationalist.
His lecture on "Evangeline" was handled in
a most eloquent and masterful manner, at times
displaying wonderful histronic powers. In one
sentence -- it was hte best of the entire course. A
warm welcome awaits the lecturer when again it will
be our pleasure to listen to his charming voice.
Allamakee Journal, Lansing and Waukon, Iowa
