The Washington herald., 1913-06-28
Meetings Of Students from All
Over the World in Summer
Camps and Conferences.

The summer conferences OF the Y. W.
G. A. are well under way. Two of the
| eleven, indeed, are already over-the
Southern Conference, with a record
breaking attendance of 44s, nearly 10
| more than ever before, and the confer
ence for private school girls, which, IN
| this second year OF its existence, has
| doubled its attendance. Inc Eastern
| Student Conference at Silver bay, n. y,
and the East Central Student Conference
at Eagles Mere, Pa, which have just
| opened, draw to them girls from prac-
tically all the Eastern colleges and
| schools. Six hundred are registered for
the Silver Bay Conference and 800 at
Eagles Mere. A smaller conference
numbering, perhaps, 800, is held at Gear
hart Park, Greg. In July, from the LIST
TO the llth, comes the Eastern City Con-
ference for city women OF all classes
and interests-board members, employed
association workers, teachers, Librarians.
stenographers, salesgirls, ana many 9TH
ers. To this Washington city will send
delegation from the 1. D. Z. CLUB, the
Round Table Club, and other groups. In
August there will be conferences for the
Middle West. the Rocky Mountain dis
trict. and the Pacific Coast, two of these
strictly student conferences, two strictly
city conferences, and one for both city
and student delegates. THESE are neId
at Lake Geneva. Wis; Estes Park. Colo,
and Guardamar, Pacific Grove, Cal.
Bible classes and classes relating TO
various phases OF mission and commu-
nifty study. to Mormonism. to the prob
lens OF immigration. and to scIentinc
methods OF reIIet IN organized charitable
work are held. Among the leaders ana
re- Inhr NJ
of Middlebury College; Rev. B. S. Win
chester and Rev. Albert c. Knudson, of
Boston; Rev. W. P. Keller, OF North
ampton: Mr.. Owen r. Lovejoy, Mr.. Bur-
dette g. Lewis, Rev. Z. l.. Smith, and
Rev. Charles T. Mcfarland. OF New
York. at Silver Bay; at Eagles Mere.
Rev. L. T. Reed, of Brooklyn, and Rev.
John r. Brown, OF Bridgeport, Conn; at
Geneva, Rev. w. c. Covert. of Chicago
and Rev. Fred b. Hill, OF NorthneId,
Mimi; at Estes Park. Rev. Ryiand
Knight, OF Tennessee. ana President
Frank K. Sanders, of washburn; on the
PACING Coast, Pror. Norman r. Coleman,
Of Reed College, Portland. and Rev.
Henry K. Booth, of Los Angeles.
Nortbheld Conferences.
Six hundred college boys from scores |
of Eastern schools inv ded the confer |
eDee building and opened the thirty-frst |
season at Mortified this week. The con- |
ference is record-breaker; more dele |
gates, more speakers, more features than |
ever before. Yale, with a delegation OF
over 100. shares Gould Hall with Har- |
ward. which runs a close second In num- |
bers. Toronto, in the same building, |
keeps the peace between the ancient |
rivals. About forty Chinese. led by c. |
7. Wang, of the Chinese Christian Asso- |
citation of America, are discussing ways |
of making Christianity reality In their |
native land. Fifty Latin-Americans from |
Cornell, Penn, and other colleges are at |
Mortified for the first time. Scores OF /
preparatory school boys also have theii |
own special meetings. About 100 differ
ent institutions are represented.
The speakers list is even more cosmo- |
politan than that of the delegates. Baron |
Paul Nicolay comes from Russia to tell /
OF the struggle of the Russian student |
for freedom; Edward C. Carter and G. |
Sherwood Eddy come from India; the |
Right Rev. Charles H. Brent. Bishop Of
the Philippines. is well known to the
Mortified constituency. Pastor lie Seur.
the German religious leader, represents
Berlin, and DR.. Robert z. Speer. with
John R. Mott, who has just completed
world tour in behalf of missions. round
out the list of speakers
This conference crowds into the nine
days veritable miniature LIE Of fun j