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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough of college to become sceptical or for that man whose beliefs need an airing, Silver Bay will prove an excellent training ground...
...serves as well to conceal the absence as the presence of ideas. Religion has been so much regarded as a purely personal matter that it is often stiffed for lack of an airing. For the purpose of bringing religion out in serious discussion with eminent and interesting men the Silver Bay conference is held yearly...
There are other diversions beside talking and thinking offered at Silver Bay--baseball, swimming, canoeing and mountain climbing in a country almost as beautiful as Switzerland. But neither the primary nor the secondary object of the conference is to tack up new athletic records nor to supply opportunities for strength contests. The gathering is frankly a conference, a religious conference wherein active men such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Dean W. L. Sperry will lead a discussion of practical questions of an all-important subject...
...France." Certain it is that the Frenchman argues on all possible occasions on subjects which Americans avoid. The result is that while the Frenchman keeps his ideas sharp and clear, the Anglo-Saxon is apt to leave his thoughts in the dim background. There will be ample opportunity at Silver Bay to try the French method, not only with older men but also with delegates from a large number of other colleges. Anyone who is so firmly fixed in his faith that he has nothing to receive, or so strongly silent that he has nothing to give, will not find...
...members of the Silver Bay Committee, which during the last few weeks have been canvassing men in the University in regard to the student conference to be held in Silver Bay June 14 to 22 have reported that there is wide-spread interest among members of the University in the meeting and that many students have already indicated their intention to attend the gathering. Under the leadership of W. E. Crosby Jr. '24, the chairman, the committee will continue its work intensively during the rest of the month and try to obtain for the Crimson delegation 100 men, the maximum...