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VISITATION WEEK BEGINS AT THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL

SESSION TO CLOSE WITH DINNER AT UNION

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Three days of this week beginning today will be devoted by the Theological School to special exercises, which constitute "Visitation Week". Regular classes will be held during the morning hours, but all school exercises will be omitted on the three afternoons of the Visitation. Visiting alumni will also attend the special exercises.

The opening meeting will be held at 2.30 o'clock today in Andover Chapel. A devotional service conducted by Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School will be followed by an address on "The Preparation of the Minister" by Professor J. H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature. At 3.30 o'clock in Andover Chapel Professor Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, will lecture on "The Creeds".

Plan Two Meetings Today

The Divinity School Alumni will meet in Divinity Chapel at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon, and the Andover Alumni will meet in Farrar Room, Andover Hall, at the same hour. At 5.30 o'clock Professor W. W. Fenn '84, Bussey Professor of Theology, will conduct a chapel service in Divinity Chapel. The first day of "Visitation Week" will close with a dinner at 6 o'clock at the Union.

Tomorrow the exercises will commence with a discussion at 11 o'clock in the Farrar Room, Andover Hall, on "What can be done to Improve the Theological Curriculum?" The discussion will be opened by Professor Edwin D. Starbuck '94, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. From 4.30 to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon will be the Social Hour in the Farrar Room. The Reverend Charles F. Carter of Hartford, Connecticut, will hold a service in Appleton Chapel at 5.30. A dinner at the Union at 6 o'clock will also close the exercises for the second day.

Will Discuss English Conditions

"Changing Religious Conditions in England" will be the subject of the Discussion Hour at 11 o'clock Thursday morning in the Farrar Room, led by the Reverend T. Rhondda Williams, Minister of the Union Congregational Church, Brighton, England. "Visitation Week" will end with a meeting in Andover Hall, at 4.30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, at which recommendations from the Alumni Association and other businesses will be received.

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