Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-29
BATES COLLEGE.
Great Interest Being Taken in
| Missionary Work.
Students Not Only Helping Those
Abroad but Many at Home.
A New Auditorium, and Dornnitcry Saiu
| to Be Assured.

Bates College, Lewiston, NJ, jan ~
-(SpeciaD Tuesday evening l.. {.
Carter. secretary Of the y. N. a. \. or
Harvard College, addTe sscd the stu
dents in Union room. Parker hall. his
subject being the students Volunteer
Movement for Foreign Missions. the
meeting WIS exceptionally we'll attend
ed, not only because Mr.. Carter wos a
classInatc Of one Of Bates young ana
popular professors. ii Harvard. hut al
so from the fact that a new and create +
interest as a whole.
Ii may be said that few colleges of
the size of Bates has done, or is doing
the work that she Is, in foreign, and
also in home missionary work The
Y. W. g. A. mas FOR several years been
supporting Il young girl il mission
airy school ut Midnapcre, India, and the
Y VI. c. a. has lately assumed the sup
port OF young Hindoo boy in the boys
department of the same school.
Mr.. carter expects to leave America
in the spring for Calcutta, where he
viii take ny the work Of Y. NJ. G. i.
secretary III the university there. He
Is Il young man OF very pleasing al
dress, and succeeded in bringing his
subject clearly and fore e':bly before his
hearers.
The situation of Bates gives her all
the chance her students require TO de-
velop a home missionary spirit. That
the college has developed this spirit is
L well-known fact. and the work done
among the Door of this city has come
TO be recognized by the citizens as very
great. Several years ago Il movement
was started among the professors and
students which has resulted in the So
cia! Settlement on oxford street.
While this work was first intended to
enliven the children who work in the
mills and who are denied many OF chill
lren enjOyments. it has grown to be
n pleasant social center around which
gather not only the children of that
neighborhood, but also the mothers and
often the fathers of the children.
The work as carried on by the stu
dents consisting Of social .amusements
and entertainments only, but some of
the best talent in the Twin Cities" and
of the college is heard there. The work
has cost n great deal of time and Ia
Dor, often self-saciilice, but il has re-
suited in more good than the promoters
had any hopes Of achieving.
Not only have the people been bene-
flied, but the students have been broad
ened and brought into better sympathy
with their neighbors. The city and COL
tege have grown nearer together in the
last few years and find that they have
many interests in common.
The missionary spirit of the age has
touched the religious and social life of
Bates in n wonderful manner. A Ii
brary is being formed of books treating
on these and kindred subjects. An en-
tertainment will soon be given by the
college for the benefit of the city Y. NJ
C. A. and in this and many other little
ways the city and college are coming
| 10 eether as never before.
Pres. Chase has been absent several
weeks on business around Boston.
Pleasant ruulors reach his home friends
that the prospect of new auditorium
and dormitory is practically an assured
| fact.
Il. c. Merry, the manager of the foot
ball team. left college, Saturday, to
| teach term Of High school at Dover,
Me. He will be greatly missed.
w. l.. Parsons has returned to college
after an absence of several weeks.
The class Of 1908 has recently lost a
member, Robert s. Catheron. who has
been called to mis- home in Needham.
Mass.