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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...
...recent meeting of the Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet, sixteen men were chosen to make up the Harvard Northfield Committee, which has as its primary duty the organization of a group to go from the University to the Northfield Conference. This Conference will be held at East Northfield, Mass., from June 16 to June...
This Committee met yesterday for luncheon at the Phillips Brooks House, and at this time more detailed plans for the Conference were discussed. Four men, in addition, spoke on certain phases of Northfield work. F. V. Green, who presided at the meeting, spoke on the Conference in general. Sidney Lovett of the Mt. Vernon Church spoke on the value which he had recognized in the conference since 1910 when he first attended, as a Yale undergraduate...
Among the speakers who will be at Northfield this June are many who are well known thoroughout the country. The most prominent men who will lead the Conference are: Dr. G. R. Baker, C. S. Campbell, Dr. H. S. Coffin, Sam Higginbottom, C. E. Hurry, J. W. Macdonald, F. P. Miller, Dr. F. N. Seerley, Dr. R. E. Speer, Norman Thomas, Dr. H. H. Tweedy, Dr. R. P. Wilder, S. W. Wiley, the Honorable J. S. Wilson, and H. P. Van Dusen...