ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The Christian Association's annual report, containing forty pages, has just been issued. The following brief summary will be of interest to the alumni:

Two opinions:

"The Dartmouth Christian Association is of great value to the College in the ideals for which it stands and the definitness with which it defines these by its work."

ERNEST MARTIN HOPKINS

"I regard the very remarkable advance of the Young Men's Christian Association in influence and usefulness as on the whole the most marked religious phenomenom of the past decade. In this general advance the College Association has kept pace. It is today a positive and far-reaching force in the College and in the State. It is impossible to think of anything of equal value which could take its place."

Membership:

Nine hundred forty-two members in Association - largest membership in its history.

Meetings:

Two held weekly. "Six-forty-fives" Fridays and "After-Suppers" Sundays. Average attendance per meeting throughout year 105.

John R. Mott Campaign :

Conducted for social, moral and religious advancement of College. Most serious and intensive effort of the year. Total attendance different meetings 3388.

Social Work:

Ten boxes containing 4710 magazines collected and sent out. Eighteen daily newspapers placed in reading room College Hall. Music furnished Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Rural Sunday School Work:

Ten schools held in outlying districts each Sunday, furthest being seven miles from Hanover; twenty-four regulars and ten substitutes taught these schools. Total enrollment 256. Average attendance per Sunday 169. Total attendance for year 6184. Total attendance socials 1075.

Community Extension Work :

Entertainment troupes sent to surrounding towns. Transportation only charge.

Boys' Work:

Boy Scout troops organized and conducted at Wilder, West Lebanon and Enfield.

Deputations:

Seventeen single and 20 team deputations sent out; thirty-three different towns visited; forty-six different men used. 6584 miles traveled. 20,638 total attendance at meetings.

Lost and Found Bureau:

Three hundred ninety-six articles reported lost; 355 articles reported found ; 219 returned to owners.

Publicity Bureau :

Directed 57 freshman workers. Collected 300 Association finance pledges and 600 war fund pledges.

Employment Bureau:

Ninety-three men registered for work; 244 positions filled; $3,150.00 value of work given out.

Tutoring Bureau:

Eighteen men offered services as tutors; seven men tutored.

Billy Sunday's Coming:

He spoke twice — once to 4000 crowded inside Alumni Gymnasium and again to 1400 undergraduates and officers of the College in Webster Hall.

Educational Department:

Conducted evening school at Lebanon. Average attendance 48.

New Student Work:

Handbook issued to all freshmen, reception held; Information Bureau conducted opening of College.

Volunteer Band and Mission Study:

Nine in Volunteer Band; Total enrollment study classes 176.

Bible Study:

Two courses held in fall; classes held in 13 dormitories following Mott campaign.

Northfield:

Eighteen represented the College at this annual Student Conference.

Church Relations:

Ninety-six men affiliated with church on student membership basis during year and 16 on confession of faith.

Wheelock Club:

Meetings held weekly.

War Work:

$3711.90 received from students and faculty and $458.03 from collection Pennsylvania game given to prisoner-of-war relief. Hanover and College Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. committees organized. $323.00 collected for work with American troops.

Dartmouth Abroad:

Eighty-eight men went as American Ambulance drivers in France. Two men went into Y. M. C. A. hut-work.

Report Undergraduate Treasurer:

Total receipts $3420.48. Total expenditures $3261.01. Balance on hand $159.47.

Report Alumni Committee Treasurer:

Total resources $4315.48. Total expenditures $2000.50. On deposit Dartmouth Savings Bank $2000.00. Balance in checking account $314.98.