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150 DELEGATES AT SESSION

CONVENTION OF STUDENT VOLUNTEERS ENDS SUCCESSFUL MEETING.

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The first meeting of the fall conference of the Student Volunteer League of Greater Boston was held in Phillips Brooks House on Saturday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject discussed by the conference was "American Students and the Changing World."

At this gathering Professor E. C. Moore outlined the history and organization of Phillips Brooks House. He spoke on the many different religious organizations that are separate in themselves, but are united in the Phillips Brooks House Association, which is in turn keeping together the students who would ordinarily be separated on account of differences in religion. He also spoke of the great number of Harvard men who were engaged several nights a week in social service work under the direction of Phillips--Brooks House. He concluded by telling of the great social problems the Association has solved and those that it is trying to solve at present.

On Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock, a meeting was held in Andover Hall. This meeting was addressed by Professor J. W. Platner of Andover Theological Seminary, and other sessions were held at various hours on Sunday. At 7.30 o'clock Sunday evening the delegates attended services in Central Church, Boston, where they were addressed by Secretary Enoch F. Bell of the American Board, D. J. N. Mills of Washington, D. C., Dr. Martin R. Edwards of the Harvard Medical School in Shanghai, Mr. J. C. Robbins, Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement, and the Rev. Mr. H. B. Benninghoff of Waseda University, Japan.

One hundred and fifty delegates from Creater Boston attended the convention.

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