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Show Original Chautauqua The first Chautauqua assembly, known as the Sunday School Assembly, Assem-bly, was In session August 4-18, 1S74, as the result of a plan formed by Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, and Rev. John H. Vincent of New York. The assembly plans widened rapidly in successive years. In 1S79 a school for teachers In secular subjects was opened. Probably chautnuqeji Is best known In connection with the plan of systematic home reading. Th plan was proposed and explained In 1578. The first year 7,000 persons were fen-rolled fen-rolled and from that time readers' varying In number from 8,000 to 25,-00 25,-00 have joined the circle per season. sea-son. There are now throughout the United States and Canada more than 550 local assemblies modeled after the original Chautauqua Institution. |