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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
This was founded in 1858, and is the oldest of the College Christian Associations.
Its object is to promote the religious and moral welfare of the students
by furnishing opportunities for religious work in and near the University,
and facilities for various kinds of healthful recreation and instruction. Under
the former head it conducts Sunday-schools at the University and among the
poor of the neighboring mountains, carries on a system of central and district
weekly prayer-meetings, and arranges for courses of Bible-study under the
direction of competent and experienced teachers. Under the latter head it
publishes a compact and useful Students' Hand-Book to the University, secures
periodical public lectures and discourses, conducts the Students' Reading-Room,
and has purchased and put into a high state of improvement a
valuable field near the Fayerweather Gymnasium as a free Campus for athletic
sports. The Students' Reading-Room is convenient of access, comfortably
arranged and furnished, and supplied with a large selection of the best periodical
of an annual fee of $2 to meet its current expenses. The Visitors and the
Faculty of the University heartily commend the good work of this Association
to the students of the University, all of whom are invited to unite in its membership
and privileges.
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