fe
fraught with such promise ended by an assassin's bullet!

The Assembly of 1880 came to its close on August 19th, after a session
of thirty-eight days. Although the C. L. S. C. had come to the
foreground and held the center of the stage, the normal work and Bible
study had not been neglected. The teacher-training classes were now
under the charge of Dr. Richard S. Holmes and Rev. J. L. Hurlbut. The
Children's Class was maintained with a daily attendance approaching
three hundred, the lessons taught by Rev. B. T. Vincent and pictures
drawn by Frank Beard; also Mr. Vincent conducted an Intermediate Class
in Bible Study. In all these classes for older and younger students,
more than two hundred and fifty passed the examination and were enrolled
as graduates.

On the last evening of the Assembly, after the closing exercises, there
was seen a weird, ghostly procession, in white raiment, emerging from
the Ark and parading solemnly through the grounds, pausing before the
Miller Cottage and the Vincent Tent for a mournful, melancholy musical
strain. This was the "ghost walk" of the guests in the Ark. Some eminent
Doctors of Divinity and Ph.D.'s were in that sheeted procession, led by
Professors Sherwin and Case, engineered, as such functions were apt to
be, by Frank and Helen Beard. The ghost walk grew into an annual march,
until it was succeeded by a more elaborate performance, of which the
story will be told later.

CHAPTER XII

DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY AT CHAUTAUQUA (1881)

THE eighth session opened on Thursday, July 7th, and continued
forty-seven days to August 22d. A glance over the program shows that
among the lecturers of that year was Signor Alessandro Gavazzi, the
founder of the Free Italian Church, whose lectures, spiced with his
quaint accent, and emphasized by expressive shoulders, head, glance of
eye, held the interest of his auditors from the opening sentence to the
end. No verbal report, however accurate, can portray the charm of this
wonderful Italian. Professor W. D. McClintock of the University of
Chicago, gave a course on literature, analytic, critical, and
suggestive. Dr. William Hayes Ward, Dr. Daniel A. Goodsell, afterward a
Methodist Bishop, Professor Charles F. Richardson, Dr. Edward Everett
Hale, Dr. A. E. Dunning, Editor of _The Congregationalist_; General O.
O. Howard, who told war stories in a simple, charming manner; Dr.
Philip Schaff, one of the most learned yet most simple-hearted