ler favored women on the Fair
Point platform, but Vincent was in doubt on the subject. Of course some
gifted women came as teachers of teachers in the primary department of
the Sunday School, but on the program their appearance was styled a
"Reception to Primary Teachers by Mrs. or Miss So-and-So." Dr. Vincent
knew Frances E. Willard, admired her, believed honestly that she was one
of the very small number of women called to speak in public, and he
consented to her coming to Chautauqua in the Temperance Congress of
1876. From the hour of her first appearance there was never after any
doubt as to her enthusiastic welcome at Chautauqua. No orator drew
larger audiences or bound them under a stronger spell by eloquent words
than did Frances Elizabeth Willard. Frances Willard was the first but by
no means the last woman to lecture on the Chautauqua platform. Mrs. Mary
A. Livermore soon followed her, and before many summers had passed, Dr.
Vincent was introducing to the Chautauqua constituency women as freely
as men, to speak on the questions of the time.

Another innovation began on this centennial season--_The Chautauqua
Assembly Herald_. For two years the Assembly had been dependent upon
reports by newspaper correspondents, who came to the ground as
strangers, with no share in the Chautauqua spirit, knowing very little
of Chautauqua's aims, and eager for striking paragraphs rather than
accurate records. A lecturer who is wise never reads the report of his
speech in the current newspapers; for he is apt to tear his hair in
anguish at the tale of his utterances. Chautauqua needed an organ, and
Dr. Theodore L. Flood, from the first a staunch friend of the movement,
undertook to establish a daily paper for the season. The first number of
the _Herald_ appeared on June 29, 1876, with Dr. Flood as editor, and
Mr. Milton Bailey of Jamestown as publisher. The opening number was
published in advance of the Assembly and sent to Chautauquans
everywhere; but the regular issue began on July 29th with the Scientific
Conference, and was continued daily (except Sunday) until the close of
the Assembly. Every morning sleepers (who ought to have arisen earlier
in time for morning prayers at 6:40) were awakened by the shrill voices
of boys calling out "_Daily Assembly Herald_!" The _Daily_ was a success
from the start, for it contained accurate and complete reports of the
most important lectures, outlines of the Normal lessons, and the items
o