The Crimson rambler . de to send as many delegates as possible to the summer Con-ferences and other Christian student gatherings. Two delegates brought homean interesting report and spirit from the Rochester Convention. A minor butvery important duty of the Christian Associations is to provide a wholesome sociallife for the students. Tho all the demands of social life are not met in this opening socials with oilier occasional ones, both of which are very informal,tend to ])romote a truly social feeling among the students. Vor about nine years the Y. M. and Y. W. C. have provided fo
The Crimson rambler . de to send as many delegates as possible to the summer Con-ferences and other Christian student gatherings. Two delegates brought homean interesting report and spirit from the Rochester Convention. A minor butvery important duty of the Christian Associations is to provide a wholesome sociallife for the students. Tho all the demands of social life are not met in this opening socials with oilier occasional ones, both of which are very informal,tend to ])romote a truly social feeling among the students. Vor about nine years the Y. M. and Y. W. C. have provided for the stu-dents and citizens a high class lecture course that has proven an intellectual upliftto all those who have taken advantage of it. The Associations do not wish to for-ward their work at the expense of any other student activities, but to bring intotheir activities the Christian spirit as a guide to action and to make Jesus Christour social, athletic, intellectual, and spiritual guide. THE 1911 CRIMSON RAMBLER. STUDENT VOLUNTEER BAND AS mentioned elsewhere in this volume, the Student Volunteer Bandwas organized on the afternoon of February oth, 1911. It grewout of a desire to manifest the missionary spirit of the collegein organized form. Eight students, with an able adviser in our CollegePresident, Dr. Hoover, compose this organization. ^Jeetings on freshand interesting missionary topics are held every two weeks, with anoccasional open meeting, to which the students and friends especiallyinterested in missions are invited. A leader, JMr. Dennis Swaney. anda recoirding and corresponding secretary, Vliss Nettie Crane, composethe officers of the band. It is the purpose of the band to produce a spirit that will be con-ducive to the greatest sympathy toward missions in the college as awhole; to assist the associations in conducting missionary nieetings andin choosing- suitable mission study courses ; to create an atmosphere inthe band that will tend to strengthen the will o
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