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Father Field of Boston is doing a large and much needed mission work among the negroes on the back of Beacon Hill, and he has asked the St. Paul's Society for assistance. The society wishes the mission to be rather a college than a society work, though the management will necessarily be from the society, and so all men of all kinds in every class who feel any interest in mission work, or who are looking for a chance to do something for somebody besides themselves, are earnestly requested to help in this matter. Probably Father Field could find...
Because a paper is occasionally called upon to deal harshly with college organizations college men are apt to think that adverse criticism is its typical mood; yet where a paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other...
...Grays last night. The following men were elected officers for the coming half year: President, T. R. Kimball '95; vice-president, M. Ladd '94; secretary, J. K. Whitte-more '95; treasurer, N. P. Dodge '95; chorister, G. B. Magrath '94; librarian, A. C. Train '96. Plans for mission work in Boston for the winter were discussed and the outlook is at present very promising. Father Field has offered a definite work for men who are willing to help him and it seems as if the college, through the St. Paul's Society, could give him all the help he will...
...club was able to move into still larger and more comfortable rooms. This year the accommodations have been still farther increased. Formerly the freshman classes raised the money to carry on the work, but since it moved the funds have been provided by the management of that mission, and now all the freshman class has to do is to furnish men to carry on the work and to subscribe $50 or $100 to provide for entertainments. The work has been very successful in past years...
...Cornell Volunteer, a new monthly magazine, will appear in March. It will be published by the Cornell Mission Band and will be devoted to general missionary work...