and fed.

Prominent upon the lecture platform in 1899 were Prof. C. T. Winchester,
Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, Prof. John Fiske, Prof. A. B. Hart, Bishop C.
B. Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, President Faunce,
Dr. George Adam Smith, Dr. E. E. Hale, and Governor G. W. Atkinson of
West Virginia. Mr. John Kendrick Bangs was also on the platform with
readings.

The year 1900 rounded out a century, and one of its outstanding events
at Chautauqua was a course of lectures by Principal Fairbairn of Oxford
on "The Nineteenth Century." He asserted that in the ages to come, this
hundred years will be looked upon as perhaps the greatest of all the
centuries in the world's progress made during that period. He spoke in
turn upon the historical, the political, the inventive, the literary,
the religious, and the philosophic progress, giving without a written
reminder names, dates, facts, processes of thought in the widest range.
Many regarded it as one of the ablest and most enlightening series of
addresses that they had ever heard.

[Illustration: South Gymnasium]

Among the new faces on the platform we saw Dr. Lincoln Hulley, the new
President of the John B. Stetson University of Florida, an exceedingly
interesting speaker and a charming personality. We heard also Mr. Edward
Howard Griggs in a series of lectures in the Amphitheater, and an
appreciative class also met him in the school. From 1900 until the
present, Mr. Griggs has given us biennial courses, and on "Old First
Night" his tall form rises and sits down as the record is made up for
every alternate year. No lecturer on thoughtful subjects has more
engagements or brings together larger audiences than Mr. Griggs. Dean
Charles D. Williams of Trinity Cathedral, and in a few years Bishop
(Protestant Episcopal) of Detroit, an independent thinker and powerful
preacher, welcomed both on the platform and in the pulpit many times
since that appearance, his first among us. I think also that Professor
Bliss Perry of Harvard spoke for the first time this season, also
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Others who came as old friends were
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, President Henry Churchill King, Dr. Graham
Taylor, Dr. Cadman, Mr. Edward Howard Griggs, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
Miss Susan B. Anthony, and Miss Jane Addams. I must not forget that
this summer Mr. Francis Wilson was with us again, and gave a lecture
upon Eugene Field and his poetry, an appreciation inspired by f