The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29
YALE NOTES.


 The third international convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions will be held at Cleve- land, O., beginning Wednesday, Febru- ary 29, and closing February 27. The | convention is held in Cleveland at the invitation of the Young Mems Christian association of that city, seconded by all the churches, The meeting place for all general sessions will be the Cleveland Grays' armory.
 | The aim of the convention is to bring together carefully selected delegations of students and professors from all lrli- portant institutions of higher learning in North America and leaders of mis- sionary enterprises, both at home ana abroad, to consider the great problem of the evangelization of the world. The features of the convention will be se- ries of addresses by some of the strong est missionary speakers of North Amer 1 ica and other lands; discussions or questions concerning the promotion ana fostering of missionary interests among 1 students and the financial problem or the missionary enterprise; addresses and meetings for deepening the spirit
 ual life; opportunities for interviews 1 with missionaries, board secretaries and other leading workers, and an educa- 1 tional exhibit on missions. Among those who will give addresses l or take part in the discussions are Rev. | F. B. Meyer of England, MT. Robert E. Speer, Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., 1 Hon. James A. Beaver, Rev Charles
 Cuthbert Hall, D. D., Rt. Rev. w. A. Leonard, D. D., Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.
 D., and Rev. A. F. Schauff1er D. D. Missionaries and workers of experience
 representing the following fields will be present: India, Burma, Laos, China, Corea, Japan, Persia, Syria, Turkey,
 The Straits, southern Europe, Africa, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil. Chilli and Pa cific Islands.
 l Accommodations will be provided for l fifteen hundred, and Yale is allowed to
 send a delegation of twenty-two, of
 whom at least half will not be volun- teers. The committee in charge of the
 Yale delegation consists of L. Thurston | '9S, Mathew Mills 1900, A. H. Richard | SOIl l5Ul dllQ ii. kOtOliS oo LAOiii csAfy | of whom further information may be obtained.
 The last convention of the Volun- | teer Movement was held in Detroit four years ago, and it was a success in every way.
 The Shelf. debating club met last I night in North Sheffield hall. The sub-
 ject for debate was Resolved, That the l establishment of postal savings banks would be beneficial to the welfare of
 the country" The speakers were: Af- | firmative, L. Fitch, w. w. Knight; negative, E. T. Tefft and J. F. McIn- 1 tyre.
 l There was an important meeting of 1 the chess club last evening at 99 Wall l street.
 President Dwight will speak at the banquet of the Yale Alumni association | of Boston to be held Thursday, Febru-
 ary TO-
 I The name of Prof. Henry w. Farnam 1 should have been inserted among those appointed as committee to make ar engagements for Yale's bicentennial cele- bration.
 l The University hockey team will play 1 Brown this evening in Brooklyn. There will be a business meeting of | the Cincinnati club at P College street Monday evening at o'clock. The annual smoker of the St. Paul's club will be held at the Tontine hotel
 on Monday evening. January 31, at g \ o'clock.
 1 At the regular meeting of the Berke-
 ley association evening prayer was read
 and short address given by the Rev.
 MT. Phillips of St. Paul's church of
 this city in the 1900 room, Dwight hall,
 at $40 o'clock last evening.