sure the _menu_
was not in that language. I called the attention of the young man who
brought in the breakfast to the book. He told me that he was studying
Hebrew with Dr. Harper, and from time to time we had some conversation
concerning his college work. Twenty years afterward I met a prominent
Methodist minister at a Conference, who said to me, "Don't you remember
me, Dr. Hurlbut? I used to wait on your table at Chautauqua and we
talked together about Hebrew." That minister was a member of several
General Conferences and some years ago was made one of the Bishops in
his church.

Mrs. Ida B. Cole, the Executive Secretary of the C. L. S. C., is
responsible for the following: A woman once said, "Chautauqua cured me
of being a snob, for I found that my waitress was a senior in a college,
the chambermaid had specialized in Greek, the porter taught languages in
a high school, and the bell-boy, to whom I had been giving nickel tips,
was the son of a wealthy family in my own State who wanted a job to
prove his prowess."

There are a few, however, who do not take kindly to the democratic life
of Chautauqua. I was seated at one of the hotel tables with a well-known
clergyman from England, whose sermons of a highly spiritual type are
widely read in America; and I remarked:

"Perhaps it may interest you to know that all the waiters in this hotel
are college-students."

"What do you mean?" he said, "surely no college student would demean
himself by such a servile occupation! But it may be a lark, just for
fun."

"No," I answered, "they are men who are earning money to enable them to
go on with their college work, a common occurrence in summer hotels in
America."

Said this minister, "Well, I don't like it; and it would not be allowed
in my country. No man after it could hold up his head in an English
University or College. I don't enjoy being waited on by a man who
considers himself my social equal!"

Other eminent Englishmen did not agree with this clergyman. When I
mentioned this incident a year later to Principal Fairbairn of Oxford,
he expressed his hearty sympathy with the democracy shown at Chautauqua,
and said that whatever might be the ideas of class-distinction in
English colleges, they were unknown in Scotland, where some of the most
distinguished scholars rose from the humblest homes and regardless of
their poverty were respected and honored in their colleges.

Dr. Vincent, ever fertile in sentimental touche