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The Harvard delegation of 32 men returned to Cambridge yesterday morning from the fifth international convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, at Nashville, Tenn. The convention far surpassed any of the four preceding quadrennial gatherings of this Movement in the number of delegates present, and the number...
The main sessions of the convention, held morning and evening for five days, were in the Ryman Auditorium, a hall seating between five and six thousand people. Thursday afternoon was given to simultaneous conferences on the great mission fields,--China, India, Japan, and Africa.
The number of accredited delegates to the convention was 4188, representing 700 institutions of higher learning in America and foreign countries. About 150 student volunteers who have completed their preparation declared their intention of going to foreign posts before January 1, 1907. On Thursday evening subscriptions to the amount of...
The convention elected the following officers for the ensuing year: president, H. R. Geyelin, Pennsylvania; vice-presidents, P. T. Kammerer, Jr., College of the City of New York, and F. H. Plumb, Syracuse; secretary, A. P. Payson, New York University; treasurer, F. O. Lodge, Columbia; executive committee re-elected G...
The following universities and colleges were represented at the convention: Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Colgate, College of the City of New York, Fordham, Haverford, New York University, Stevens, Swarthmore, Syracuse. T. Gerrish '01 and W. G. Graves '06 represented the University.