From the record of ’82. Held in the Hall of Philosophy in August, 1882, at 5 p. m. [This report had been overlooked, and as it contains much that will be interesting, is here published.] DR. VINCENT: What are the advantages of the C. L. S. C.? What are the advantages to our homes? A VOICE: Unity in the family, in study and spirit. A VOICE: System of reading at home. A VOICE: It brings good literature into the house. A VOICE: It trains intelligent citizens in the house. A VOICE: It saves time that would be otherwise wasted. A VOICE: It gives pleasant subjects of thought while we are about our daily work. A VOICE: It promotes conversation. A VOICE: It leads us into new lines of work. A VOICE: It makes us more attractive to each other. A VOICE: It keeps husbands at home in the evening. [Laughter.] MR. MARTIN: It keeps wives home in the evening. A VOICE: It crowds out unprofitable occupation. A VOICE: It leads to farther investigation. A VOICE: It cultivates the conversational powers. DR. VINCENT: It not merely brings subjects of conversation, it brings the power of conversation. A VOICE: It makes the Southern people love the Northern people. A VOICE: It lifts the home up a little higher. A VOICE: It crowds out gossip. A VOICE: It cultivates a missionary spirit. DR. VINCENT: In what respect? A VOICE: In getting people into the circle and into all kinds of work. A VOICE: A lady says it makes the evening hearth exceedingly pleasant. A VOICE: It inspires us to want to help others. A VOICE: It has in one instance made a Christian of an Infidel. A VOICE: In more than one instance. A VOICE: There is a book in the course that will do that every time it is attentively read. DR. VINCENT: What is that? A VOICE: “The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.” A VOICE: And the “Tongue of Fire.” A VOICE: And “The Outline Study of Man” is a wonderful book. A VOICE: It helps fathers and mothers to grow up with their children. A VOICE: It helps them cultivate their memory. A VOICE: I found that I could remember dates much better than before. REV. W. D. BRIDGE: It brings the old into sympathy with the young. A VOICE: It gives even old men books they would not have read. A VOICE: It creates a spirit of union among all kinds of people that belong to it. A VOICE: It brings the grown people into sympathy with the public school and its work. A VOICE: It makes us better Christians and workers in the church. A VOICE: It was suggested a moment ago that it brings the older people into sympathy with the young: I think it brings the young people into sympathy with the old. A VOICE: It increases the respect of the young for the old also. A VOICE: It teaches old people to become younger. A VOICE: It makes old people wish that the thing had been thought of earlier. A VOICE: It brings us to Chautauqua. DR. VINCENT: That is a great thing for Chautauqua as well as for us. A VOICE: It teaches us never to be discouraged.