CHAUTAUQUA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 5 March 1920, Page 8

CHAUTAUQUA.

DR. ARTHUR D. CARPENTER. It seems strange that in the public and private schools of to-da} 1, little is taught; of astronomy. Throe thousand years ago the shepherds of Chaldea, while watching their flocks under their cloudless skies, had obtained a far better knowledge of the starry heavens than the average university man of modern times. Yet no branch of knowledge is of more absorbing interest. To present the marvels of the universe in terms of the popular mind, Chautauqua is bringing Dr. A D Carpenter, whom the late Percival Lowell of flagstaff Observatory characterised as “perhaps the greatest living populariser of astronomy. ” Dr. Carpenter’s evening lecture, “Worlds in the Making,” is a condensation of a lifetime of thought and study upon the mysteries of our Universe, “Celestial Mechanics,” a more specific discourse, is the title of Dr. Carpenter’s afternoon lecture. His treatment of his subject is so profound and j'et so simple that everj* man, woman and child finds it of intense interest, and grasps from it a new understanding of the world in which we live. You will like Dr. Oarpmße r *