head
with the words loudly spoken, "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head!"
whereupon the watchman departed without a word.

In the revolution of the Chautauqua Circle, 1885 was known as the Roman
year, having as its major subject Latin history and literature. The
studies of the "Foreign Tour" in the Assembly program embraced lectures,
with illustrations on Italian cities and scenery. Dr. Vincent's fertile
mind conceived a plan to aid the students of the course, and
incidentally to advertise it, by a series of object-lessons. He divided
Pratt Avenue, the path leading up to the college on the hill, into
sections corresponding by their relative lengths to the periods of Roman
history, and erected at the proper points along the road, posts to
commemorate the leading events, with dates and names of the great men of
the several periods. These milestones were black, with inscriptions in
white. As people passed by they would be reminded of the leading facts
in the story of the Eternal City. Often might be seen members of the C.
L. S. C., notebook in hand, storing their minds with the dates and
events in the annals of Rome. The coal-black pillars had a somewhat
sepulchral look and suggested a graveyard. One lady who was a stranger
at Chautauqua, and evidently not a member of the C. L. S. C., asked Dr.
R. S. Holmes, one of the leading workers, "Can you tell me why all these
tombstones have been set up here. Surely all the men named on them
cannot be buried along this street!" The question was also asked if it
was proposed each year to set up a row of trophies on other streets for
the American year, the English year, the Greek year, and by degrees to
turn all Chautauqua into a memorial grove for great men and great deeds
of all the ages; but at the close of the season the monuments were
gathered up and carried away, leaving no successors.

The lecture platform of 1885 was as strong as ever. Dr. Charles F. Deems
of New York delivered the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, August 16th,
an unique discourse on the short text, "One New Man" (Eph. 2:15), and
the Recognition Address on the following Wednesday was by Dr. E. E. Hale
of Boston. A special series of "Yale University Historical Lectures" was
given by Professor Arthur M. Wheeler. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss of the
Methodist Episcopal Church preached on Sunday, August 23d. Dr. John P.
Newman delivered a lecture on August 25th in memory of President U. S.
Grant, of whom he had been a f