ence. Dr. P. S. Henson
entertained while he instructed; President Julius H. Seelye, Dr. W. F.
Mallalien, later a Bishop, President Joseph Cummings of Northwestern
University, Hon. Will Cumback of Indiana, and many others, gave
lectures.

A new instructor entered the School of Languages in 1883, in the person
of William Rainey Harper, then Professor in the Baptist School of
Theology at Morgan Park, Illinois, afterward to be the first President
of the University of Chicago. No man ever lived who could inspire a
class with the enthusiasm that he could awaken over the study of Hebrew,
could lead his students so far in that language in a six weeks' course,
or could impart such broad and sane views of the Biblical literature.
From this year Dr. Harper was one of the leaders at Chautauqua, and soon
was advanced to the principalship of the Summer Schools. In the after
years, while Dr. Harper was President of the University of Chicago, and
holding classes all the year, in summer as well as winter, he was wont
to take the train every Friday afternoon, in order to spend Saturday and
Sunday at Chautauqua. Chautauquans of those days will also remember the
recitals by Professor Robert L. Cumnock of Northwestern University, a
reader who was a scholar in the best literature.

The class of 1883, though not as large as its predecessor, the Pioneers,
was graduated with the same ceremonies, the address on Recognition Day
given by Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, one of the Counsellors of the
Circle. Five years had now passed since the inauguration of this
movement, and from every quarter testimonials of its power and incidents
showing its influence were received. Let me mention a few of these which
came under my own notice.

I met a lady who mentioned that she and her husband were reading the
course together and they found the only available hour between six and
seven in the morning, before breakfast. For the study of the course they
both had risen at half past five for a year or more. One result of this
early morning reading was, she said, that at the breakfast table they
told the children stories of history and science, which she thought
turned their minds toward knowledge. Among the books was one on Human
Physiology--a book, which, by the way, I did not rate very highly and
objected to as being so elementary as to become almost juvenile; yet
that book awakened such an interest that the lady began to read more
widely and deeply on the su