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STUDENTS GATHER AT BLACK MOUNTAIN Conference to Be Held During Summer. DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING COMING MEETING Carolina Will' Be Represented as Will a Number of Other Well Known Institutions of Learning. When the strenuous work of the Spring examinations is over, hun dreds of students from our South ern colleges will happily pursue their way to Black Mountain, North Car olina, in "The Land of the Sky," where is to be held the Southern Students' Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association, lasting ten (lays, from June 15 to 23. Every year this conference is largely attended by representative men from the leading colleges of the South. Such colleges are repre sented as Virginia, V. P. I., A. and M. of N. C., Davidson and Vander bilt. Carolina was represented last year by seven delegates. The purposes of this conference are: ist. To make real to college men the fundamental facts of Chris tian experience. 2nd. To study the methods of putting these facts be fore college men. 3rd. To train men to lead in Christian work in the individual college. 4th. To bring the delegates in personal touch with sonic of the greatest religious think ers and social workers of our era. In order to carry out these purposes such ien as Robert E. Speer, C. G. Iounshell, N. C. Schlichter, Henry S. Sweets, C. K. Ober, E. T. Col ton, one of the executive secretaries of the foreign department of the Y. M. C. A., and Dr. Poteat of Fur man University will be present. 'I'hese . gentleien will conduct mission stu(ly and Bible study classes, will give inspirational ad dresses and will guide discussions of the problems of the Association work among students. These men are the real soul of the conference, and it is indeed a gran(l rivilege to hlave the opportunity to hear these mien talk and to know them per sonally, gaining from their person alit)y some of the richlness of their experience, to say nothing of thle advantage mentioned above. T1here is another almost as great and eqJually as enjoyable. It is tile social feature. It is like onle b)ig college campus, wvhere reserve andl convyen tion are cast asidle, everybody feels free and a feeling of good fellow ship exists. Every college bunch b)rings its college p)ennants, songs and yells and uses them, too. At meal time, wvhen the large dining hall is filled with college boys, one can hardly hear nne)thiim gna all so great is the cheering that is indulged in by the enthusiastic young colle gians. The mornings are given up to study, but the afternoon is given ul) entirely to pleasure and recrea tion. Every afternoon every one engages in some recreation, either boating or swimming, for they have an excellent lake on the grounds, or tennis, baseball, basket ball or, better still, mountain-climbing. A special trip to Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Rockies, will be arranged for on Monday, June 24th. This trip is of special interest, as it gives one the opportu nity to see some grand mountain scenery as lie follows the winding trail up among the mountain laurel and rhododendron and up through the region of spruce to the cloud kissed top of Mt. Mitchell. Also a special trip will be arranged to Bilt more, the estate of Mr. Vanderbilt, on Monday and Tuesday. One en tire evening is given up to the dele gares, on which they do stunts and give yells characteristic of the dif ferent colleges and States. The expenses are quite reason able-five dollars will be charged as a programme fee and the ten days' board will cost ten dollars. This constitutes all the necessary ex penses at the conference. The rail road station is Black Mountain, N. C., fifteen miles east of Asheville, in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains. The railroad fare .vill be very reasonable. This is indeed a rare opportunity and one that should I not be neglected. It not only offers an opportunity to spend a pleasant vacation in the beautiful "Land of the Sky" and to meet and become friends with a number of leading college men from our sister colleges, but there is also a chance to become more familiar with the work of the Y. M. C. A., and to meet uiponl com mon ground the real leaders in rhiw important work. You cannot spend a more enjoyable or profitable ten days anywhere, as any of the dele gates who went last year will tell you. Carolina should be well rep resented at the gathering this sum mer. Therefore let every man who can arrange to be a member of the Carolina delegation. It is a de lightful trip with very little cost attached. F. R. Hemmingwy Address Wednesday Evening by Dr. W. M. McPheeters. At the miid-wveek meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. W. M. McPheeters of the Presbyterian Seminary gave a talk upon the difference between a man wvho is a Christian and one wvho is niot. Those p)resent wvere greatly p)leasedl with D)r. McPheet ers' scholarly handling of this sub ject. J. C. Bessbee spent the week-end at his home in W'agener. Bob Obediah Purdy spenlt sev'eral (lays at his home lna week. SOMETHING OF STUDY OF MISSIONS HERE Review of Various Courses Offered by Y. M. C. A. This Session. Much Interest Shown., Realizing the importance of mis sions, and knowing that if college men are to keep in touch with the world movements they must neces sarily know something about what is being done all over the world, the Y. M. C. A. this year is offering four mission study courses instead of two, as was done last year. The courses offered during the first term of this scholastic year were on home missions. The text books used were Dr. Weatherford's "Negro Life . in the South," and Strong's "Challenge of the City." There were about twenty-five Stu dents enrolled in the class in "Negro Life in the South," and it was led by one of our professors, Dr. Chain berlayne. The other course in home mis sions, the "Challenge of the City," was led by another member of9our faculty, Dr. Josiah Morse, and about eighteen men were enrolled in the class. Along with the home mission courses, some social investigations were made by some of the students taking the mission courses. The only investigations completed, how ever, were on amusements among the negroes. Some of the investi gators were very much surprised at some of the prevailing conditions Going to .see 7/er That's the time when collar but and tiegand otherthingsoftengo wr Stop the peeve with Fatima Cigare found among the negroes. College men have a good opportunity for making social investigations and for making a fight for better social con ditions. During the second term our sec retary, V. P. Mills, is leading two courses in foreign missions, Mott's "Decisive Hour of Christian Mis sions" and Zwemer's "Unoccupied Fields of Asia and A frica." In these two courses about thirty-four stu dents have been enrolled. We were fortunate this year in having addresses by Messrs. Mills, Reavis and lounshell on mission;.. A good delegation was sent to the Student Volunteer Conference at Due West this year. The mem bers of the delegation, after their return from Due West, gave brief reports, on the various features of the conference. It is hoped that missions have a sufficient grasp upon the interest of the students who expect to be here 1912-'13 to make that year a record breaker in the study of missions. Erskine has enrolled almost every man in the membership of the Asso ciation and has had throughout the year in every way a successful work. Their course in negro life was con ducted by Prof. Edgar Long and roused the same interest that this course has (lone wherever it has been taught. The Erskine Association did itself proud by the way in which it co-operated with the Student Vol unteer Band there to provide for the entertainment of the conference there last March. 4 /ies /o