CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PROSPERS IN MANY LINES

The Christian Association is coming into its own. From a position of relative unimportance in undergraduate affairs, it has risen steadily in the last two months until it is now generally recognized as a dominant influence for service in the College. Its cabinet has been enlarged to fourteen, of whom seven are members of Palaeopitus, including Lester K. Little, president of the Association. Wallace M. Ross '09, who has been engaged in boy's work for several years at the West Side Y. M. C. A. of New York, is back on the campus as graduate secretary.

The ramifications of the Association activities appeal in some way to practically every class of men in College. Never have so many taken an active part in the work. The Association has, with President Nichols' permission, taken offices in College Hall, in what was formerly the trophy room, The Employment Bureau is there, and under the management of a committee of three it is daily giving work to many men. A system has been adopted by which detailed statistics of each man's actual need of work, his experience and general proficiency are catalogued. The committee recently sent out a letter to all the faculty and one hundred and fifty of the townspeople, explaining its. plan to. make the Employment Bureau a clearing house for the local supply and demand of labor. A card enclosed read: "Men for every kind of work, whether skilled or. unskilled, will be furnished at short notice.. . . . . Music teachers, stenographers, book keepers, carpenters, farm hands, men for housework, etc." The Bureau is trying to stimulate demand, to open up new fields for student employment. The committee is cooperating with the Dean's office and with all athletic coaches.

A second policy of the Association is to conduct a free tutoring bureau for freshmen delinquent in studies, but unable to pay for assistance. The Dean's office sends regular reports to the committee in charge of the tutoring bureau on all,freshmen below SO in any study. The case is investigated and if circumstances warrant, a tutor is assigned to help the man. Fully fifty upperclassmen are enrolled as tutors. Like the work of the freshmen class officer the Bureau is intended to decrease the mortality among first-year men attendant upon mid-years and finals.

The Association has inaugurated a series of Thursday night meetings in College Hall to run until Christmas. They will consist of talks by popular faculty speakers and prominent men from out of town, varied by musical or specialty entertainments. Professor Marshall, Dean Laycock, and Professor E. J. Bartlett have been among the speakers thus far.

"Dartmouth in Turkey", the project proposed last year, details of which appeared in an earlier issue of THE MAGAZINE, is to receive the support of the Christian Association this year. Edward Wheelock Jahn '14, a direct descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, has been sent by the American Board of Foreign Missions to the post formerly held by R. W. Barstow '13, in Mardin High School, Turkey. He will be there three years as a tutor and will then return for his senior year in College. The Association will contribute to his support with the hope that ultimately the missionary school may be taken over entirely.

To finance all its undertaking, the Association started out with a budget calling for $1,200, exclusive of the 'salary of the graduate secretary, and in a fourday campaign among faculty and undergraduates, raised nearly $800. The amount is being increased gradually by new members, who pay the $1.00 membership fee.