torical sentence nor a rounded period.

Mr. Leon H. Vincent was again at Chautauqua, with his literary lectures.
Either during this season or the one when he came next--for he was
generally present every alternate year--it became necessary to move Leon
Vincent's lectures from the Hall of Philosophy to the Amphitheater, on
account of the number who were eager to hear them. Among those who gave
readings were Mr. Charles F. Underhill of New York, Mr. George Riddle,
and Professor R. L. Cumnock.

The Methodists, both of the North and the South, have always formed a
large element in the Chautauqua constituency, partly because of their
number throughout the continent, but also because both the Founders of
the Assembly were members of that church. This year, 1888, the Methodist
House was opened, in the center of the ground, and at once became the
social rallying place of the denomination. Its chapel, connected with
the House, was built afterward by the all-year residents at Chautauqua
as the home of the community church, which is open to all and attended
by all, the only church having a resident pastor and holding services
through the year, nominally under the Methodist system, but practically
undenominational.

In May, 1888, Dr. John H. Vincent, after twenty years in charge of the
Sunday School work as Secretary and Editor, was elected and consecrated
a Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church. For some years his episcopal
residence was at Buffalo, within easy distance of Chautauqua, but his
new duties required him to travel even more widely than before, and he
needed an assistant to care for the work of the Assembly. Mr. George E.
Vincent, able son of distinguished father, was this year appointed
Vice-Principal of Instruction, and assumed a closer supervision of the
program of Chautauqua.

In this year, also, Dr. William Rainey Harper was made Principal of the
College of Liberal Arts, all the departments of the Summer School being
under his direction. Another name appears on the record of 1888, the
name of Alonzo A. Stagg, haloed in the estimate of young Chautauqua with
a glory even surpassing that of the two Founders. For Stagg, just
graduated from Yale, could curve a baseball more marvelously than any
other man in America. He was one of the instructors in the gymnasium,
and organized a team that played with most of the baseball clubs for
miles around Chautauqua, almost invariably winning the game. It was said
that the a