THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION'S EXHIBIT
The Christian Association just before the Easter recess had an exhibit of its work in the old trophy room of College Hall. The exhibit, displayed on five screens, showed in a significant manner the many and varied activities which this association is carrying on today.
Screen No. 1 had pictures of the three buildings where the Association is active: College, Robinson, and Bartlett Halls. Under this was an interior view of 22 Robinson Hall, showing Graduate Secretary Ross '09 and President Griffith '15 at the desk. This office gives the Association privacy. A picture showing one end of the old trophy room gave one an idea of the publicity side of the Association. Here the four very efficient bureaus, Employment, Lost and Found, Tutoring, and Publicity are seen at work. The screen also gave a picture of this year's cabinet of nineteen men, a card containing snap-shots of the class of Poles at Wilder who are being taught English twice a week, of the class of French-Canadians who are being instructed in mechanical drawing, and of the class of eight foreigners in Hanover who are meeting four evenings each week for instruction in the English language. A picture of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital was shown, where the Association sends music every Sunday afternoon and furnishes some kind of entertainment every Friday. A flashlight of the meetings held in the living room of College Hall at 6.45 every Friday night, which have had an average attendance of 132, completed the first screen.
Screen No 2 was given up wholly to Deputations, in which work Dartmouth today leads all other colleges in the United States. The statistics card shows that this year thirty-eight trips have been sent out to thirty-eight different places and eighty-five men have been used. These men spoke to 25,715 people and the traveling expense to the people who have had the deputations was $418.00. A map with lines running out from Hanover to the different towns and cities showed where these deputations have gone. Write-ups of the different trips, newspaper comments, and letters of appreciation from the pastors of all the churches in Lebanon, from the principal of Cushing Academy, from a man's class in Whitefield, and from President Nichols, together with many snap-shots, filled the remaining space.
Adjoining the screen was a large poster four by six feet in dimension which had been placed on the Lebanon Town Hall to advertise the deputation there March 5-7. This deputation had nineteen engagements and a total attendance of 2,501.
On screen No. 3 the Dartmouth-in-Turkey project was illustrated by pictures of the different high, grammar, and mission schools in Mardin, Asiatic Turkey. A card stated that $600.00 was contributed for the support of a Dartmouth man here last year and $250.00 was this year raised. The screen also showed a chart of Hanover, Norwich, and Lyme, with yellow dots denoting the location of the four rural school houses to each of which two men walk and conduct a Sunday School for eighteen to twenty young people every Sunday afternoon. Snap-shots of the boys' work at Wilder, Thetford, and Hanover were also given, showing that there are 119 boys in the different clubs. The last card showed that 126 Freshmen have this year joined the College Church on the student membership basis.
The other two screens gave samples of the work of the Publicity Bureau and a miscellany of the different pieces of printed matter which the Association has had this year. A large card telling of the work of the four bureaus gave the following statistics; Employment: 117 men registered for work, 123 positions given out, $665.00 value of these positions; Tutoring, 116 men offered services gratis, 59 Freshmen tutored; Publicity, 18 Freshmen working, 250 posters made and put up, 1100 tickets to Howe's Moving Pictures sold; Lost and Found, 330 articles reported lost, 278 articles returned to owners, $580.30 cash value of same.
Besides the screens the clock four feet in diameter which was used in bringing the membership, 440 last year, to 901 was displayed together with mackinaws, caps, gloves, books, fountain pens, etc., which the Lost and Found Bureau had unclaimed at the time of the exhibit.
The exhibit portrayed very vividly what The Dartmouth in an editorial on March 29 said in substance: That the Christian Association has today become perhaps the most powerful and valuable general organization in the college, having used to date 450 different undergraduates in its many forms of service.
EXHIBIT SHOWING WORK OF DARTMOUTH CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
