CAMPAIGNS BY THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The Christian Association has launched many campaigns of many kinds in the past, but probably never one that won such instantaneous response from Dartmouth undergraduates as the campaign of March 14-16, to raise funds for the support of Edward Wheelock Jahn, ex-'l4, in Turkey. "Dartmouth in Turkey" was the theme of an association supplement in The Dartmouth, meetings, and of many forms of advertising. It was hoped that $600 could be raised on the Campus. In forty-eight hours $712.50 came in in cash and pledges, and contributions have not stopped yet.

The project is larger than simply the support of Jahn. Four Dartmouth men are training now in graduate schools to take up work in academic and medical departments at the Mardin Mission School. These men are: R. W. Barstow '13, the first Dartmouth man to go to Mardin, Jahn's predecessor. He is now at the Hartford Theological Seminary. He will relieve Jahn in 1916. H. E. Meleney '09, Graduate Secretary of the Association, 1910-1911, is now at the Columbia Medical School expecting to go to Mardin in 1917. In 1918 two men go to the foreign field: F. L. Meleney '10, President of the Association 1909-1910, now at Columbia Medical School, and S. B. Weld '12, President of the Association 1911-1912, now at the Harvard Medical School.

The Association, through its Faculty Council and Alumni Committee hopes to make interest in the foreign school so great that with men available and money enough for their support assured, the Mardin Mission may be taken out of the hands of the American Foreign Missionary Society entirely. It will then truly be "Dartmouth in Turkey", just as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Oberlin, and some other colleges have their distinctive schools in Asiatic countries.

As the ALUMNI MAGAZINE copy goes to press, the Association is launching an even more pretentious campaign in the interests of modern religion. To round out all. the other work of the Association and to fulfill its moral obligations to the College, the services of three of the most prominent Y. M. C. A. workers in the country have been secured. These men are Charles D. Hurrey, National Executive Secretary of the North American Student Y. M. C. A., Edward C. Mercer, and Frank Buchman, Graduate Secretary of the Pennsylvania State University. They .will be assisted by T. A. Greene, Amherst '13, Graduate Secretary of the Amherst Christian Association, and W. I. Vorys, Williams "14, President of the Williams tian Association.

Seven different organizations and groups in College are. united under an executive council and committee of seventy to further the interests of this campaign which opens March 26 and closes March 29.

Mr. Mercer will speak in ten fraternity houses. Meetings will also be held in larger groups in dormitories and in Dartmouth Hall.