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Education

On summer schools

• 03 July 2008

Throughout the US and UK, the summer school was a distinctive feature of the progressive age before the Great War. The spirit of those optimistic times is well conveyed in this article, written anonymously for the New Statesman (but possibly by S K Ratcliffe) during the first year of the magazine's life. The Chautauqua Institution in New York State described was founded in 1874, and still holds nine weeks of educational and cultural activities every summer. Selected by Robert Taylor