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chautauqua
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chautauqua [ʃəˈtɔːkwə]
n
(Social Science / Education) (in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer
[named after Chautauqua, a lake in New York near which such a school was first held]
Chautauqua an educational assembly modelled on that at Lake Chautauqua, 1874.
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Once unleashed, linear types became so dominant that they seemed to push the new American republic forward in terms both of individual self-realization and of self-improvement as epitomized in the cult of the "self-made man" and the lyceum and Chautauqua movements.
Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America by Martin, James Kirby / Journal of Social History
The Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy (RTD2) tour is inspired by the Chautauqua movement, which was founded in New York State in 1874.
Rolling Thunder by New Internationalist
Coleman's concept was wider than the Chautauqua movement as the Forum was grounded in a nonsectarian base, although Baptist funds initially sustained it.
The striking of mind upon mind": the Open Forum and the Social Gospel by Meyers, Arthur S. / Baptist History and Heritage
 
 
 
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