Word: northfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approaching summer has already suggested to the emotional that a young man's fancy should turn--and not lightly--toward thoughts of higher things than the mundane meanderings of the college year. So Northfield and its ilk again call the serious to the saw dust and the star dust of moral and spiritual reform...
...much good any of these meetings does is doubtful, if one expects that a renascence of religious fervor is to spring forth from the hearts of those who wend their way to Northfield or to Lake George or any other of the collegiate Chautauquas. Of course they do afford pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower...
...luncheon to be held today at the Phillips Brooks House, plans for a delegation from the University to the Northfield conference this June will be discussed. Any member of the University, whether he at present expects to go to Northfield or not, is invited to attend the luncheon...
...Medical Committee, T. G. Klumpp 4M; Dental School Society, R. D. Clements 4Dn.; and the following four new members, W. N. Bump '28, Chairman Speaker's Bureau; J. L. Beauchamp, Deputations Committee; T. A. Viehe '27, Lectures Committee; F. W. Greene '28 has been chosen to head the Northfield Conference Committee which has just been picked Fifteen other members of the Committee will form the Harvard delegation to the Conference...
...dollars will not be required from foreign students. In order to secure a large foreign representation financial aid will also be extended to certain of these students who could not otherwise attend the conference. All men who are interested in spending all or part of the conference week in Northfield should put in their applications at the Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible...