Rural Conference

STUDENT AND FACULTY representatives from rural New England colleges will meet at Dartmouth on March 8 and 9 for a conference on ways to foster closer and more helpful relations between students and the people living in college communities. The conference is sponsored by the New England Student Christian Movement's subcommittee on rural problems, composed of Dartmouth and Colby Junior College members, with Robert O. Blood Jr. '42 as chairman.

Prof. Charles McConnell of Boston University will deliver the keynote address on "What Has Happened to Rural New England?" A panel discussion on the opening night will present state, college and church officials on subjects of welfare and relief, agriculture and home economics, recreation, education, health, and the Church. The Sunday program will include a report from Camp William James, inaugurated by a group of young Dartmouth and Harvard graduates, and reports by colleges on the work already being done in rural areas.