House and Garden 
VINCENT SQUARE, THE CIVIC CENTER OF THE NEW CHAUTAUQUA Drawn by Nicola DUtocenzo 
Assembly Green on the right, extending to The Round Table 
is about to enter upon a period of per¬ 
manent construction and orderly growth. 
A broad and comprehensive plan reorganiz¬ 
ing the old property on functional lines has 
now been evolved. It is capable of being 
indefinitely extended, and it sets up a 
tangible ideal of beautiful surroundings 
amid which work and study may be carried 
on. Chautauqua will gradually conform to 
this ideal, and will become an educational 
example bearing fruit throughout the coun¬ 
try in the local civic endeavors and students 
who leave the Assembly and carry its les¬ 
sons home with them. In being true to its 
educational objects, Chautauqua now pro¬ 
poses to make an object lesson of its own 
metamorphosis, and this secondary purpose 
of its career will become, it is believed, 
even farther reaching in its influence than 
the mere accommodation of its yearly 
visitors. 
The grounds have been divided into cen¬ 
ters representing different departments of 
the Institution. The athletic interests are 
concentrated at one point, intellectual at 
another, and the area given over to cottages 
forms, as it were, a background to the pub¬ 
lic buildings. The beating heart of civic 
life, the magnetic pole of the Institution, 
lies where the new Auditorium stands facing 
Vincent Square. In this plan, according to 
the suggestion of Mr. J. Massey Rhind, 
should stand a bronze statue of heroic size 
representing Education, symbolized by a 
beautiful intellectual type of womanhood 
seated on the throne of knowledge and 
bestowing a laurel wreath upon all ages. 
Surrounding the pedestal of this figure, in 
a large circle inlaid in the stone plaza, the 
twelve signs of the zodiac would imply 
that she rewards all in every month of the 
year, while these devices themselves would 
be interesting and educational to the young. 
The long vista of Assembly Green, half a 
mile in length, one hundred and ninety feet 
wide, and flanked with four rows of arched 
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