"You must notice these programs of the Brooklyn, N. Y., Chautauqua Alumni," said Pendragon. "The alumni number seventy members and as they have decided this year to take up the regular course again after some years of study in various fields, they have divided the circle into neighborhood groups, holding a general meeting once a month, and taking special pains to bring the new graduates into the circle. Another program worth your attention is this of the Round Table of Kokomo, Indiana. Their membership includes graduates from '84 to 1906. The basis of organization, you see, is social, each monthly meeting offering a brief program dealing with some topic of interest, and so keeping the graduate members in touch with each other." "I see," he continued, “that the Kansas City delegate is here and as they have an unusually effective form of organization we must have their report." "I can't say that we can claim any credit for special altruistic work in our S. H. G.," responded the delegate, "but we are trying not only to extend our boundaries but to cheer along our own members, so incidentally we are benefiting the community. Our meetings are of a social nature but, like the modern novel, they have a 'purpose.' In October, we have a reception for the new graduates. In January a literary meeting, when we invite all the circles. Our business affairs are attended to in May, and in June we have a picnic, always a most festive occasion. In March we had a banquet at the Coates House of sixty Chautauquans with Professor George E. Vincent, President of Chautauqua as our guest of honor. You all know how inimitable he is. We are still talking of his visit. You may like to see our program: .Toastmistress .Rev. Chas. W. Moore .Dr. Geo. E. Vincent .Mrs. E. Harriett Howe ...Mrs. Fred Cunningham Chautauqua from a Business Man's View Point......C. L. Brokaw Chautauqua from a Clergyman's View Point.. Rev. Wm. A. Brown The Chautauqua Woman. The Circle. Piano Solo.. Chautauqua and Philanthropy. .Mrs. G. W. Campbell .Miss Nettie Hamilton Mrs. Fred Cunningham . Rev. Chas. W. Moore "I believe we are rather unique in having a County Alumni organization." The speaker proved to be from Jefferson County, New York,-"but that doesn't discourage us in the least. Some of you will try it perchance one of these days and be surprised to find how interesting it is. We have nearly one hundred members, and have been holding yearly meetings for eight years. We meet once a year in September, being entertained at different towns in turn and have a luncheon together and always a most interesting program. You would realize how deep into our lives Chautauqua has gone if you could attend one of our meetings and see how many of the older graduates take an active part." "Just what our achievements may develop into," commented a member from Benton Harbor, Michigan, "I can't say. We have organized two other circles in this county, at Eau Claire and Berrien Springs, and there seems to be no reason why we may not have equal success elsewhere. We believe it an important work for the S. H. G.'s to undertake. Who should be able to interest people in Chautauqua, if not those who have found help in its work? We have been studying THE CHAUTAUQUAN and Shakespeare's plays and also MacMaster's history of the United States. The two subjects make connections with each other much oftener than you might think. We are helping to build a hospital so our S. H. G. stands for service to the community. Pendragon next called for brief reports from various delegates, interspersing these with items from letters revealing the widespread character of this graduate work. Glencoe, Minn., reported twenty-five graduates studying Shakespeare. Ashville, New York, no formal S. H. G., but a few graduates having secured books fron! the State Library to supplement the C. L. S. C. course, persuaded eight people to read as a study class, though not yet ready to join the general circle; in Westfield, New York, a young S. H. G. helps to foster the alumni spirit while at least twenty of the graduates do their studying with the undergraduate circles. At Sinclairville in the same state, a very small community, the old Chautauquans have met yearly since '86, twenty-five of them, to sing the old songs and recall old memories. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, graduates have secured a dozen new members this year and are working with them on the regular C. L. S. C. course,-a fine instance of persuasive power. The S. H. G. of Syracuse, New York, is responsible for the "White" Circle and each year sends out circulars to persons who might be won over to the C. L. S. C. The Des Moines, Iowa, Chautauquans are reaching the community at many points with their many circles and the Chautauqua League which brings them all together at occasional intervals. Fostoria, Ohio, has a stalwart S. H. G. who have formed themselves into a Shakespeare Study Club with a permanent and accomplished leader. They meet every Monday night and study carefully three plays a year. In October they gather together all the graduates for a reunion and banquet at the Log Cabin Hotel at Meadow Brook, a nearby suburb. Pendragon glanced at the graduates who still awaited their chance to speak. "Time will fail us, I fear," he said, "to tell of the good work of Creston, Iowa, Wichita, Kansas, Shelbyville, Illinois, Cincinnati, Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Holley, N. Y., Troy and Toledo, and the new S. H. G. at Norwalk, Ohio, and other organizations from the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. We must close, I think, with the report of the Marion, Iowa, S. H. G." The Marion delegate explained that their S. H. G. belonged to the city federation. "We believe it's a great thing," she said, "to keep in touch with other clubs whether they are taking our course of reading or not. We can always get ideas from others and they often use Chautauqua material in their clubs. We all help to support the public library and our S. H. G. sees that a bound volume of THE CHAUTAUQUAN is placed in the library each year. Then we contribute to the federation lecture course. Two lectures on 'Story Telling' and on 'Tuberculosis' were immensely suggestive to us. Our regular study work is the English Reading Journey supplemented by Shakespeare's play of ‘Richard III.' We are very enthusiastic and trying to learn all we can about England.” News Summary DOMESTIC. February 7.-John D. 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