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This year for the tenth time Mr. D. L. Moody has invited the students of America to meet at Northfield, Mass., for conference and Bible study under the direction of the College Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...
...Conference proper are held morning and evening. Platform meetings addressed by interesting speakers, Bible classes, informal discussions, association and missionary conferences indicate the varied character of the privileges which the gathering affords. The afternoon is given to recreation. Good facilities are provided for tennis, baseball, track athletics and swimming. Northfield itself is a New England country town of the old-fashioned type. It is situated in the beautiful valley of the Connecticut River and is surrounded by magnificent hills and mountains which reward the lover of New England scenery with many a delightful view...
...meeting of the Christian Association last night in Holden Chapel, the plans for the summer missionary conferences held at Northfield, Mass., for college men, were first considered. Several members of the society, who have been at Northfield in former years spoke on the subject and advised all who could to attend the conference this year. D. Fales '97 spoke of the conferences held at Lake Geneva, Wis., which are similar to those at Northfield...
...WADSWORTH, Sec.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. - "Northfield Meeting" at 6.45 in Holden Chapel. Promptly at 7.30 will take place the election of officers for the ensuing half year from May-December, 1895. A proposition will be considered bearing on the relation of the Association to the other religious societies of the University. Every member is urged to make an especial effort to be present...
...magazine entitled Northfield Echoes will be published by the Northfield Students' Conference this summer...