The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-03
YOUNG WOMEN
AT NORTHFIELD
Another Conference Opens With About
600 Delegates from Many Schools
Plans for Fourth.

EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass, July 3.
The young women S conference has
opened at Northfield and the campus,
which three days ago was thronged
with boys from the colleges, is now all
aflutter with 900 girl delegates from
all parts of the East. Everything is
being done by the girls, even the wait
ers have yielded their place to wait
resses, and q man is almost curiosity
on the grounds. Many of the delegates
are tenting near the buildings, and
new tents have been put up to satisfy
the demand for the outdor life. In
Marquand hall are housed the dele
gates from Rochester, % strong, Bos-
ton with 20, Wilmington, Del, with 15,
the Agnes Irving school with 20 and
smaller delegations from Philadelphia
and Miss Beard s school of Orange, n.
j. In Gould hall there is a delegation
from Keene, \. H., under the direc-
tion of Mrs. w. +. Holbrook, number
ing l00 Other groups come from
Hartford, Plainfield, n. J., Newark, n.
j., Pittsburg, Pa, St. Timothy S school
of Baltimore Miss Hall s school of
Pittsfield, Troy, n. Y, and other small
er delegations. Betsey Moody cottage
| is given mp entirely to the New York
| delegation, Miss Masters s school Of
Dobbs Ferry, n. Y, has all of Weston
hall with about 40 and Henry Moore
cottage is occupied by the Pennington
school Music hall has IS delegates
! from the Westown Friends school and
/ also a number from Montclair, N j.
! Stone hall is filled with large num-
L of Hal
| different places. Mrs William r.
| Moody, who is taking an active part
| in the conference as speaker and
leader, is entertaining Rev. j. Stuart
| Holden of London, Miss Masters of
Dobbs Ferry, and Miss Cook of Dana
hall. All the conference speakers arc
| housed in Revell hall, DR.. and Mrs.
Mcdowell of Newark, \. J., acting as
hosts
The conference was officially opened
last night by the presiding officer, w.
r. Moody of Northfeld, and all the
| leaders of Bible classes and mission
study gave two-minute reviews of THEN
| courses. DIR. John Mcdowell of New
ark, n. J., outlined his course on rea-
sons for your faith; others speaking
were Rev Francis s. Downs, DR.
Charles Erdman, Mrs. Dwight f. Pot
ter and DIR. Charles A. Albertson. TIL,
large bonfire which is to celebrate the
Fourth has already begun to take form
and viii be lighted the night of the
Fourth after an address by Rev. j
Stuart Holden.
Special song books have been pre-
pared or this conference by Mrs
Bertha Harlan, made up of songs that
have proved popular in past years
Another pleasant feature was found by
the delegates when they received theil
room cards which were in the form Of
bookmarks gotten out by the North
field league This league, whose pur
pose it is to continue the spirit of th'
Northfeld conference in their hom,
cities, viii have charge of a meetin.
Monday to hear reports from the /
centers of activity during the pas
year. Miss Dorothy March of Orange
NJ J., has announced that the athletic
of the conference viii start with tw'
tennis tournaments, one in doubles AM
one in singles. There will also be
baseball game between two team
picked from the whole conference an
on Monday there will be a field NEE
| between the different delegations.