Instruction. The Bishop retained the title of
Chancellor, however, as long as he lived.

In 1898 a new building was erected on College Hill--The Hall of
Pedagogy. The report of the season's work showed that attendance had
increased in the schools twenty-five per cent. over the last year, the
advance being distributed quite evenly among the departments. By this
time nearly all the universities and many of the colleges were holding
summer schools, yet Chautauqua, first in the field, was still leading in
its membership. This year Chautauqua received a visit from Lord
Aberdeen, the Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, and his wife,
the Countess. Americans are apt to look for a freezing dignity on the
part of the higher nobility, and some were a little surprised to find
the Governor-General and his Lady unreservedly approachable, and
unaffectedly democratic in manner.

Some of those who gave lectures in 1898 were Dr. Richard T. Ely of the
University of Wisconsin, President Thirkield of Atlanta, afterward
Bishop, Dr. Moulton, Miss Jane Addams, Hon. Murat Halstead, General John
B. Eaton, Mr. Leon H. Vincent, Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell, Dr. J. H.
Barrows, President of Oberlin, President Faunce of Brown, Dr. Robert
McIntyre, also to become a Bishop in due time, Dr. Charles E. Jefferson
of New York, Dr. Amory H. Bradford of Montclair, N. J., and Mr. John
Kendrick Bangs. Mr. Leland Powers was with us on his biennial visit, and
recitals were also rendered by Mr. C. F. Underhill, Mr. John Fox, Miss
Isabel Garghill, Mr. Will Carleton, and Miss Ida Benfey. Up to that
date, the season of 1898 was one of the most successful in Chautauqua
history.

At this time, the _Chautauquan Magazine_, the organ of the C. L. S. C.,
and the _Daily Assembly Herald_, were taken over by the trustees, and
the _Chautauqua Press_ was established as the publishing agency for the
periodicals and books of the C. L. S. C. Mr. Frank Chapin Bray was
appointed Editor. By birth and education he was a thorough Chautauquan,
having, as it were, grown up on the ground from early childhood and
gone through all the courses from the Children's Class to the C. L. S.
C. As a small boy he had sold the _Assembly Herald_; as a young man had
written for its columns, and he is not the only journalist who took
these steps upward to a literary career.

The season of 1899 opened with a cloud hanging over Chautauqua, bringing
sorrow to one family and deepest sympathy from