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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...Harvard has grown in the last ten years, while that of Harvard has grown everywhere else. It is safe, I think, to say that most of the students who would probably be drawn to college by love for athletics rather than for scholarship come from the East. Whether the recent success of Yale in the field of athletics and of Harvard in the field of scholarship can explain the tendency here noticed will never, I suppose, be mathematically demonstrated...
...resolved that the points awarded Union College in the recent contest be withheld until February, 1896, in order that the committee might further investigate the charges that the winners were not members of the association...
...some time past the question of renewing Andover-Exeter athletic games has been under discussion by a joint committee of graduates from the two schools. At a recent meeting the committee wrote to each school, asking that a mass meeting be held on Thursday of this week to vote whether it favored a renewal of the games, beginning with next fall...
...recent meeting of the Lampoon board S. H. Pillsbury '97, was elected a regular editor and G. von Utassy a business editor...