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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 literature. It is open to all members
of the University upon the payment 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.

During the year 1894 the following valuable series of discourses upon the
Evidences of Christianity was delivered under the auspices of the Association:

1. "The Unity of the Old and New Testament Scriptures," by Bishop J. C. Granberry,
D. D., of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church.

2. "The Historic Christ," by Rt. Rev. Thomas U. Dudley, D. D., Bishop of Kentucky,
Protestant Episcopal Church.

3. "Jesus teaching Nicodemus," and "The Truth of the Old Testament proven by the
New," by Rev. John A. Broadus, D. D., President of the Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky.

4. "Jesus the Supreme Teacher," and "The Sad Tone of Infidel Literature," by Rev.
Moses D. Hoge, D. D., of the Southern Presbyterian Church.

5. Two discourses on the "Testimony of the Monuments to the Truth of Revelation,"
by Rev. Walter W. Moore, D. D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary,
H.-S. College, Va.