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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

May, 1914
Article
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
May, 1914

C. E. Griffith, Jr., '15 has been elected president of the Christian Association for next year. The position carries with it membership in Palaeopitus under the new rules for the composition of this body. E. B. Merrill '15 was chosen vice-president, H. W. Marble '16 secretary, and R. L. Durgin '15, treasurer.

Statistics of the Hurrey Campaign conducted by the Christian Association, March 26-29, by Charles D. Hurrey, Edward C. Mercer, and Frank Buchman, aided by W. I. Vorys, president of the Williams Association, T. A. Green, graduate secretary of the Amherst Association, and R. W. Barstow '13, show the following interesting facts:

In fifteen preliminary meetings there was an attendance of 207, and in the Horning Watch services an attendance of 101.

Of the meetings of the campaign proper, three were held in Webster Hall with a total attendance of 1,600; three were in A Dartmouth, attended by 860 men. Thirteen dormitory meetings were held, to which 385 men came. There were seventeen fraternity meetings in which 589 heard Mr. Mercer speak. Besides this, there were sixteen miscellaneous meetings attended by 257 men, making a total of fifty-one meetings, and attendance of 3,691, and an average attendance of 74.

There were 106 personal conferences given by the leaders of the campaign. Finally, Professor Marshall held three post meetings for discussion, attended by 61 men. The campaign cost the Association $199.25.

No figures can tell adequately the story of those four days, nor can anyone estimate the permanent results of the work done. It is not too much to say, though, that Mr. Mercer and Mr. Hurrey, the one making his plea for clean living, the other for stronger religious convictions upon which true morality is said to be based, changed the entire current of undergradute thought in the brief time they were here.