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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...suggestive is the letter of one of the Fellows of the College in the early years of the Revolution: "The young gentlemen have already taken up with politics. They have caught the spirit of the time. Their declamations and forensic disputes breathe the spirit of liberty...
...days of King Charles the First, a young man of the English middle class took his degree at the University of Cambridge. Although no book records it, we know he must have had visions of high duty and privilege. He was only a humble minister and weak in body, but he was also, as one of his contemporaries writes, 'a godly gentleman and a lover of learning.' His vision of duty carried him to this land. Amidst the poverty and hardships of the day, he had before him the vision of a greater people. And as he became weaker...
...these social meetings will come once a week. At some of the breakfasts guests might be entertained who would talk informally on some literary topic. Thirdly, if the conferences should develop a desire for instruction on some special point, endeavors will be made to provide short lecture courses by young graduates of known ability, whether tutors of the club or not. To these lectures any member of the club may bring any friend interested in the subject...
...convincingly the need of some institution where railway management may be taught. He shows that there are schools or courses where the would-be lawyer, physician, doctor and engineer may study for their profession, but that by perseverance alone in practical work in one limited deparment can a young man educate himself in the railway profession...