as long as Dr. Adams could conduct it.
Afterward an arrangement was made which has become permanent. Every
season a series of eminent clergymen are engaged, each to serve for one
week as chaplain. He preaches the Sunday morning sermon in the
Amphitheater, and on the following five days at ten o'clock conducts the
Devotional Hour in the same place, giving a series of discourses, Bible
readings, or addresses. The speaker of each week is a man of national or
international fame. The greatest preachers in the American pulpit have
spoken at this service, and the audience is surpassed in numbers only by
the most popular lectures or concerts. Many there are who deem this the
most precious hour in the day.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] After Dr. Vincent's title was changed to "Chancellor of the
Chautauqua University" that form was used; and in his absence the
President said instead "as representing the Chancellor of the Chautauqua
University."

CHAPTER XIV

SOME STORIES OF THE C. L. S. C. (1883, 1884)

WE must hasten our steps through the passing years at Chautauqua. Our
readers may take for granted that the regular departments were
continued; that the Summer Schools were adding new courses and calling
new professors; that the Normal Class for the training of Sunday School
workers was still held, no longer in the section-tents nor in the
Children's Temple, but under a large tent on an elevation where two
years later was to stand the Normal Hall, built for the class, but after
some years transferred first to the Musical Department, later to the
Summer Schools and partitioned into class-rooms. The Children's Class
was still held by Dr. B. T. Vincent and Professor Frank Beard, for our
friend with the crayon was now in the faculty of the School of Art in
Syracuse University.

In 1883 the session was forty-five days long, from July 14th to August
27th. A new feature of the program was an "Ideal Foreign Tour through
Europe," with illustrated lectures on various cities by C. E. Bolton,
and "Tourists' Conferences" conducted by his wife, the cultured Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing of Chicago taught classes in the
important art of cookery. Professor Charles J. Little gave a course of
lectures. Hon. Albion W. Tourgee, residing at Mayville, who had achieved
fame soon after the Civil War by his story, _A Fool's Errand_, gave
lectures in the Amphitheater. Professor William C. Richards showed
brilliant illustrations in physical sci