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END OF A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Omaha's Chautanqua College
Holds Its First Anniversary
Celebration.

Speeches by Dr. Duryea, Mrs Elia W.
Peattie, Judge Ambrose, Rev. Frank
Crane and Others of Nole.

The first season of the Chautauqua college
was brought to a fitting close last
night in its home, the lecture room of the
First Methodist church. About 173 members
were present.

After supper had been disposed of Mr.
Ralph W. Breckenridge briefly reviewed
the work of the college, which was established
last October and thorught following
the general Chautauqua principle, was in
detail of Omaha Institution. The college
differed from the regular Chautauqua circle
in the same manner as a university
differs from a school. Mr. Breckenridge
found that it had been a success and congratulated
it on having proved that Omaha
wants, needs and appreciates a
course of weekly lectures by prominent
local and foreign speakers. Miss
McClintock, the secreatry, read the report
and Mr Breckenridge then called upon
Major Halford to act as toastmaster.

Dr. Daryes was the first speaker and, as
usual, he not only aroused himself, but also
his audience. In Dr. Duryes's opinion it
is a man's dury, not only to God. But to his
fellow man, to increase his ability and to
stimulate his intellectual growth; the
measure of a man's duty, he said, was a
man's ability and opportunity, and the man
who deliberately gave all the day to work
for gain and all his lelsure time to amusement,
neglecting the development of his
higher self, awas a original. Dr. Duryea
scored not only society for its shallowness
and falseness, but also the churches, for
not doing the work they should promoting
the growth of men.

Mrs. Peattie spoke of "The Value of
Sentiment," and in doing so declared it to
be the mother of human development, of
religion, of liberty, of all that is highest
and best in man Dividing society into two
classes, the egotistic and the altruistic,
Mrs. Peattie said taht the former class
largerly predominated the world over, but
nowhere more tan in republics, owing in
part to the theory that all men are born
equal, and the herces and selfish competition
which it involved Selfish motives were often
lauded, and the greates crime today among
men was to fall; yet the unselfish man
could not under existing conditions, from
the world's point of view, succeed.
All the sorrow and sin, Mrs. Peattie
said, came from selfishness and
it was against selfishness which sentiment
waged constant war; it was sentiment
which had given woman the place
she occupies today, changing the harem
into the home; to sentiment could be
traced invention and literature and it remains
as a star guiding himanity on to its
high destiny.

Rev. Wesley K. Beans spoke of "The Relation
of the Church Education," and
gave a history of the educational efforts,
chief among them being the Chautauqua of
the Methodist church in the United States.

Judge Ambrose talked on "Flies and
Hired Girls" The former, he said, was the
greatest ill inflicted on suffering humanity,
and after graphcally describing the
ghoulish glee with which a fly will
torment a man when he wants to
sleep in the morning, he declared that
some good christians have found it hard to
forgive God for ever making them. In his
talk on the latter Judge Ambrose went
back even to Adam, Abraham and Job, but
did not give the long-sought solution of
the present day problem.

Mrs. F. A. Tucker was to speak on "The
Woman Questions," but disappointed the
audience by changing the tables, and in
place of talking about woman she talked
about man Mrs. Tucker's talk was very
different from the backneyed and worn out
speeches about woman's rights and was
refreshing in its originality. After simply
referring to the constantly increasing class
of women who believe in political
equality, Mrs. Tucker quoted freely from
the poets in sustaining her position
that has been and isdue to a false chivalry
that woman is denied the rights she
now claims and that men have been misled
from the highest niotives and are not intentinally
unjust to women.

Mr. E. A. Benson was down on the program
for a talk on electricity, but on account
of the lateness of the hour simply
told a short story and asked to be excused
Rev. Frank Crane then briefly gathered up
the "crumbs," and the frst season of the
Chautauqua college, which has been the
most sucessful effort of its kind ever
made in Omaha, was closed.