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...annual Student Conference at Northfield will be held this year from June 13 to June 21, inclusive, instead of from June 18 to 28, as previously announced. An elaborate program has been planned, and the activities of the delegates will have special relation to the war. John R. Mott, LL.D., who spoke at the University last fall after his return from Y. M. C. A. work in Russia, is expected to be present as presiding officer and will address the members concerning his recent experiences abroad...
...date for the annual Student Conference at Northfield has been set for June 18 to June 28 inclusive, and students of all New England colleges and many secondary schools may attend. It was at first doubtful whether, on account of the war, the conference would be held at all this year, but it has now been definitely decided to maintain the custom of over 20 years' standing, and hold the convention as usual...
...Northfield Student Conferences began more than 20 years ago at Mt. Hermon, and were moved the next year to East Northfield, where they have been held ever since. Many other similar conferences were subsequently organized in various sections of the country. Within a few weeks an undergraduate of the University will be chosen as chairman of the contingent to go from Cambridge to the conference...
...recent quadrennial conference of the Student Volunteer Movement held at Northfield during the Christmas recess, the policy was adopted "that New England college Christian Association leaders should challenge 200,000 students to study, understand and apply on campus, in the army and in the life of the nation and the world, Christian principles of world democracy...
...grounds of the Northfield Student Conference are convenient both to Northfield Station, on the Southern Division of the Central Vermont Railroad, and at East Northfield Station on the Boston & Maine Railroad. Special reduced railroad rates have been secured...