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...Christian Endeavor movement among young people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...
...Williston and Beale Speak...
Professor Samuel Williston and Professor Joseph H. Beale also spoke informally...
...What we seen to do," Professor Williston said in part, "is to teach the best law in the best way. And this job of searching for the best is expensive. We've got to have more buildings, we've got to have more lecture rooms, we've got to have more teachers, if the Faculty is to continue to develop the best that is in each student...
...these luncheons, Professors A. M. Beale '97, Samuel Williston '82 and Joseph Warren '97 will outline the needs and make known the methods to be used in the campaign...