The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-10
Conference CLOSED
$50 YALE MEN PRESENT
This Years Mortified Meet
ing Largest One Ever
Held.

East Mortified, Mass July 9.-The
twenty-second session Of the student
conference closed Sunday night. hay
ang the record of the biggest ever held
and the one In which delegates took a
bigger part than ever before Of the
1000 delegates $50 were from Yale,
making it the largest delegation yet.
Mortified is place where religion
As the popular thing; the craze to go
to meetings is predominant up here.
That is about all there is doing for
excitement, except by athletics. This
religious popularity has different
stages. First comes the young mems
conference, which college boys attend,
their shirtwaists decked with frat
pins and their white flannel trousers
on for Sunday services and a coat
hardly ever seen. These last for ten
days.
Then come the girls, and all sorts
they are, coming from city Y. w. c.
AS, from various city clubs and from
finishing schools. The girls hold sway
for two weeks and then Sunday school
workers, men and women, girls and
boys, cover the seminary campus for
the two weeks of Bible school for
Sunday school methods. After they
have wiped off their blackboards and
folded all their maps the Women
Missionary societies hold a conference
at which missionary work is the topic
of interest. The final and biggest event
on the summers program is the gen
eral conference for Christian workers
which lasts from August to Is and
always attracts many New Haveners
both to tho pulpit and the congrega-
ton.
At the first gathering for students
Yale comes In strong, This year Yale
had, as usual, East hall for her dele
cation, but she overfowed it. When
Tad Jones and Pop Jefferson came VI
after the last Harvard game they had
to stay in tents. Tad was chairman OF
the athletic committee which had
charge Of all the athletic stunts, In
Guiding the baseball, tennis and track
series. In baseball Yale did well until
Gil Kinney, Tad Jones and Jefferson
left, when Harvard beat them 3 to 3
In track she came in third. The ten
mis- tournament ought to have gone her
way If Poodle Wells had got UP here
On time to enter.
Magee '06, Twitchell '06 and Barnes
'O7 were in charge Of the conference
Satourettes 'O6 and Dick Edwards .;
were assisting.
Among the other prominent men who
were up were Professor H. B. Wright
who taught one of the Bible classes
Enoch Bell, a grad, now in Japan, who
taught a mission class and led the Irisf
band, in which Professor Wright join.
4 ed also, on the Fourth Harry Beal Ot
was here with the Groton men, and tht
Till, Hotchkiss, Andover and Law.
renceville delegations were present. Al
interesting baseball series was played
in which 1910 was the star. Most in
terest, however, centered around The
pool tournament, which was played OF
the steps of the building. Otes 'O9 ant
Landon 10 WED for honors in this tour
nament.
Delegation meetings were held every
evening, led by some undergraduate o.
visitor. The Round Top services a
which 'life-work' talks were given
were especially popular.
Among the Yalensians were Morgan
Bowman, captain of the champion 'O
baseball team; Gil Kinney and Tao
Jones, captains this year and next
.Pop'' Jefferson, Charlie Campbell ant
Bill Roberts, Of pole vault fame; POO
die" Wells, Villas Of the News; Holmes
and. Otis, Of the Record; Beebe, Of TIL
football squad; George Dahl presiden
Of the Y, M. G. A. for next year; Pop
sheldon 'O5 and Paul Moody Of and w
R, Moody 81, who run the Mortified
conferences.
Yale did her part in the Fourth o
uuiy celebration with yells and songs.
The celebration Of this national holi
day is peculiar feature of the studen
conferences, and this years was no ex
ception, both in point Of interest ant
numbers attending. The regular meet
ing and Bible classes were held in tn
morning. although occasional cannon
crackers disturbed the services. Il
the afternoon a track meet was hell
on the field in front of Marquand hall
the largest building, which Princeton
Won.
The real celebration came in the eve
ming. This year all previous record
were broken. The auditorium neve
was better decorated with the 15l differ
ent college banners and colors, tn
crowd was never so big nor the singin!
and yelling so good.
Ths most unusual feature of the Gel