William Estabrook Chancellor

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William Estabrook Chancellor

LECTURE SUBJECTS

Sunrise — Civilization from the viewpoint of a cheerful cosmopolitan.
Our Fascinating Venture: The District of Columbia — Our National Capital from the viewpoint of a surprised American.
Christ versus Christianity — Modern life from the viewpoint of a Christian.




Press Notices of Educational Works Written by Mr. Chancellor

A Theory of Motives, Ideals and Values in Education. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Superintendent Chancellor, of Washington, is leading and has been leading a wholly unusual life for a schoolmaster.  He comes near being a Roosevelt in educational activity—as impetuous, as indifferent to personal consequences, as courageous, as strenuous.  At the same time, he is even more bitterly regarded by the powers that be, with whom he has to do.  There is something a-doing all the time, and history is being made.  In the midst of it all, Dr. Chancellor brought out the most important book on everyday pedagogics that has appeared in a long time—a book that every library in the world must have if it has any books on education.  Of how many other books can this be truthfully said?  The superiority of the book is not in its wisdom, though there is abundant wisdom; is not in its literary merit, though this is of real value; is not in its completeness, though it is remarkably complete; it is in its fervor, spirit and vitality.  A live man, in the heat of campaigns for progress, writes of education ancient, modern, and recent, writes of what he has observed, thought and experienced in many places and under many conditions. Conviction and belief, hope and fear, meditation and contention are the ancestral strains that blend in his thought.  A prodigious reader, an alert thinker, a vigorous worker, has produced a book in which all of these threads play their part.—
Journal of Education, Boston, Mass.


A most unusual book.  It is more significant than any other book on education that has been printed for many years.—
The Tribune, New York, N. Y.


When the last page has been turned, the reader will certainly feel that he has been viewing the world from the mountain peaks.  The author is a poet, moralist and humanitarian all in one.—
Wisconsin Journal of Education, Madison, Wis.


A thought-stirring book.—
Daily Herald, Boston, Mass.


This is the most notable educational work of the age.—
School Education, Minneapolis, Minn.




Our Schools, their Administration and Supervision.  D.C. Heath & Co., Boston. The title indicates a new point of view and a wider horizon than are found in the numerous works on educational questions that have appeared in recent years.  It addresses all persons in any way concerned with American schools.  Nowhere else within our knowledge is there a discussion so comprehensive and discriminating of the things that are fundamental in the practical working of our National school system.  Whosoever is in any way responsibly related to the system will find valuable counsel here.  The author has had experience in the often blind and blundering ways in which the educational interests of a democratic people are administered, and the practical wisdom he has distilled therefrom should be profitable to members of educational boards, superintendents and others.—
The Outlook, New York, N. Y.


Mr. Chancellor displays that fulness of inside knowledge which makes a book on any subject interesting, even when it lacks the vigor of utterance that distinguishes this work.—
The Times, London, England.


As a study in social control, this work is a masterpiece.—
The Dial, Chicago, Ill.


A tremendous success.  The horizon is wider, the view more comprehensive, than that of any similar book.—
The Telegram, Providence, R. I.


Admirable in its clear thought, high and practical ideals, and power of telling statement and illustration.  It is just such a work as teachers should study and the public should read, mark and inwardly digest.—
The Congregationalist, Boston, Mass.


The author has succeeded admirably in bringing together a body of data rich in suggestiveness and full of practical good sense.—
Educational Review, New York, N. Y.




Press Notices of Historical Works Written by Mr. Chancellor
The United States: A History of Progress.  To be Ten Volumes.  Two Volumes Issued.  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

This comprehensive History of the United States arrests attention by its thorough scholarship, its breadth of treatment, and its lucidity of style.  The Republic of the West is given its rightful place in the procession of the world powers.—
The London Academy, London, England.


A dramatic way of presenting events that animates even the dullest and most prosaic facts.  Especially should be commended the critical estimates of the great men who figure in the story.—
The Newark News, Newark, N. J.


No brief review can begin to do justice to this monumental work, which in comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and historical accuracy promises to excel any history of our country yet produced.—
The Cornell Era, Ithaca, N. Y.


The authors have gone about their task with the proper idea.  History is a story, not an encyclopedia, and judging from the first volume that is what this work is to be.—
Register-Leader, Des Moines, Ia.


Something of Macaulay's glowing and discursive style …  The interesting passages are too numerous to quote.—
Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Ind.


The style is easy, flowing, eloquent, and picturesque.  Fascinating as a fairy tale, yet thoroughly trustworthy and accurate, this work stands as an exponent of the best modern methods in historical research and in historical statement.—
School Journal, New York, N. Y.


The work gives every indication of very careful research and of sound judgment.—
The Newcastle Chronicle, Newcastle, England.


Extremely interesting.  A very admirable spirit of catholicity and toleration.  An almost unprecedentedly valuable account of the period.—
The Toronto Globe, Toronto, Canada.


The History will be acknowledged as a notable contribution to the literature dealing with the life of the country.—
The State, New Orleans, La.



SUBJECTS OF LECTURES

Sunrise
There is coming a recivilization of man more brilliant than the Revival of Art and of Learning, more universal than the Renaissance, more thorough and complete than the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.  Modern scientific discoveries and inventions are not only transforming for the better the life of the individual and changing the structure of society, but also affecting vitally all relations between nations and peoples.



Our Fascinating Venture: The District of Columbia
The City Beautiful is a city of the disfranchised and has no mode of enforcing public opinion.  Washington, the Capital of the greatest democracy of the world, is governed in violation of every age-old lesson of self-government and of every American political principle.  Congress is a legislative Niagara, and the District is a whirlpool at its foot.  The splendid show-city of the Continent is also the largest Negro community of the earth.



Christ versus Christianity
What we do, and what according to the Gospels we should do.  Property, family, government, religion, education, culture, occupation, business, charity and war according to Jesus and according to the practices of the Christian world.  Before pronouncing Christianity a failure, it might be well seriously to try in actual operation the teachings of its Founder.





Press and Personal Notices of Mr. Chancellor as a Lecturer

Aroused the deepest interest of the audience.—
State Journal, Lincoln, Nebr.


The three lectures given here, the past three days, by Mr. William E. Chancellor of Washington, D. C., were brimful of bright ideas.  He is an easy and fluent speaker.—
The Record, Salem, Ore.


Mr. Chancellor is a man of rare forcefulness and personal charm upon the platform.—
The Call, Newark, N. J.

Dr. Chancellor is an organizer of the first ability, an administrator equally good, and the finest lecturer on educational subjects that I have ever heard.  Even in Washington, he must be ranked among the foremost men.—George W. Baird, Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired, Senate hearing, January 28, 1908, U. S. Senate Document.


It was the unanimous opinion of the four hundred ministers assembled in Newark last week, that the address of Mr. Chancellor on the decline of religion and its causes was not only the most brilliant given before any similar body of Congregationalists in ten years, but also the most important.  Every auditor felt behind the calm tones of a finished public speaker a tremendous but controlled enthusiasm for certain undeniable but forgotten truths.—
The Congregationalist, Boston, Mass.


Original and witty.—
Daily Tribune, New York.


A splendid address.—
Daily Advertiser, Newark, N. J.


A gratifying feature of the course was the increasing attendance.—
Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y.



Mr. William E. Chancellor of Washington, D. C., has lectured in thirty-two States.  He has written twenty-five books, whose sales in 1907 exceeded one million copies.  He is a regularly appointed lecturer in the University of Chicago, in Johns Hopkins University and in George Washington University.

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