dergarten! Dere is but one kindergarten! You can call
dat whatever you please, but not kindergarten! You can call it
joss-house, if you choose, but you must not say dat mix-up is a
kindergarten!"

The audience enjoyed the discussion all the more because of this
scramble between opposing schools.

[Illustration: Methodist Headquarters]

[Illustration: Disciples (Christian Church) Headquarters]

There was another, and more dignified, controversy on the Chautauqua
platform in 1880. On its program was the honored name of Washington
Gladden, of Columbus, Ohio, to speak upon the Standard Oil Company and
its misdeeds. A friend of Dr. Vincent, who was an officer of the
Standard Oil, said that it would only be fair to hear the other side,
and proposed Mr. George Gunton of New York as a speaker. So it came to
pass that two able men spoke on opposite sides of the mooted question.
Each gave an address and afterward had an opportunity of answering the
other's arguments. So far as I know, this was the first debate on public
questions at Chautauqua, and it was succeeded by many others. An effort
is made to have the burning questions of the time discussed by
representative speakers. Some exceedingly radical utterances on capital
and labor have been made on the Chautauqua platform, but it must not be
inferred, because the audience listened to them respectfully, or even
applauded a particularly sharp sentence, that Chautauqua was in accord
with the speaker's sentiments.

On the list of speakers at this season may be read the following, a few
among many names: Prof. J. H. Gilmore of Rochester University gave a
series of brilliant lectures upon English literature. Ram Chandra
Bose of India gave several lectures, philosophic and popular. Dr.
Sheldon Jackson of Alaska thrilled a great audience with an appeal for
that outlying but unknown land of ours. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President
of Grant's first administration, gave a great lecture on "Abraham
Lincoln." Professor Borden P. Bowne of Boston University made the deep
things of philosophy plain even to unphilosophic listeners. Other
orators in the new Amphitheater were Dr. Robert R. Meredith of Boston,
Dr. J. O. Means of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, and Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelphia. The Fisk Jubilee Singers
made their first visit this year; and with the Northwestern Band and the
Assembly Chorus, already counted by the hundreds, under Professors
Sherwin and