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Through the kindness of the Athletic Committee men engaged in boys' club work have been able to get passes for the boys in their clubs to all except the more important football and baseball games. This privilege has aided materially in the boys' club work. At the beginning of the year Mr. C. W. Birtwell '85, secretary of the Children's Aid Society of Boston, assisted in interesting men in the boys' club work. During the year 165 men have been actively engaged in this sort of work. Their services have been valuable, and several philanthropic institutions have expressed great...
...attended by about 90 men. A large number of speakers has been sent out during the year to preparatory schools and city Christian Associations to talk to young men who are about to enter College. The association has also co-operated with the Social Service Committee in aiding social work...
Evening prayer has been read Wednesdays throughout the College year, and every day in Advent and Lent, some layman being invited to make an address at these meetings. Men have been given an opportunity to do philanthropic work in the Church and other clubs of Boston and Cambridge. The society has conducted a series of three conferences, the first under Rev. E. S. Dunn, D.D., of the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, on "The Personality of God"; the second by Dr. Van Allen, of the Church of the Advent, on "The Faith Delivered Once for All"; the third under...
...active work of the St. Paul's Catholic Club has been further facilitated this year by a gift from the Archbishop of Boston of the double house situated at 32 and 34 Mt. Auburn street, known as Newman House. Early in the year the attendance at the club meetings was slim; but as the House became better known and more comfortably furnished, a much larger attendance has been the rule, averaging about...
...constitution the purpose of the Mission is declared to be: "To arouse, maintain, and increase among Harvard men an intelligent interest in Missions." During the last year the Mission has raised $800 toward the support of E. C. Carter '00, who was Harvard's representative in the association's work in India. As Mr. Carter has returned to the United States to undertake work with the International Committee in New York City, the Mission will undertake-as one of its interests another year-to raise a part of the salary of J. M. Groves '05, who is to enter association...